It took 125 years, but in 2025 a team of mathematicians discovered the solution to a long-puzzling problem about the ...

The encryption protecting billions of dollars, which experts once called unbreakable, no longer works. Hackers don’t need passwords. They don’t brute-force keys. They simply walk through digital ...

If quantum communication becomes mainstream, our entire approach to digital security could change.

Quantum computers are shifting from lab curiosities into real machines that can already outperform classical systems on ...

Physicists have long relied on elegant theorems to connect the abstract math of quantum theory with the tangible behavior of ...

AI was stuck in a "pre-hype purgatory" until ChatGPT launched. Ian says quantum might be about to experience a similar ...

In December 2024, Google's Willow chip became the first quantum processor to demonstrate "below threshold" error correction. That's the holy grail physicists have chased for 30 years. The chip showed ...

Today, Nvidia’s revenues are dominated by hardware sales. But when the AI bubble inevitably pops, the GPU giant will become ...

Understanding the chemical properties of a molecule is an inherently quantum problem, making quantum computers a good tool ...

Researchers at TU Wien have developed a one-dimensional “quantum wire” using a gas of ultracold atoms. In this system, both ...

Dark matter is an elusive type of matter that does not emit, absorb or reflect light, interacting very weakly with ordinary ...

Scientists in China have performed an experiment first proposed by Albert Einstein almost a century ago when he sought to ...