There's a line of thought that equates intelligence with “pattern recognition.” How do you stack up on this unique cognitive ...

Quantum computers can read encrypted communications, financial transactions — and military secrets. - /iStockphoto. Let me ...

Rice quantum computing researchers have introduced a novel algorithm that earned the team a place in the global XPRIZE Quantum Applications competition.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

A chemical computer made from a network of enzymes can perform a variety of tasks, like measuring temperatures or identifying substances, without needing to be rebuilt each time. This makes it more ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1876, Peter Guthrie Tait set out to measure what he called the “beknottedness” of knots. The Scottish mathematician, whose research ...

Quantum computers can outperform even the best classical supercomputers thanks to quantum entanglement and superposition, but even they can’t solve some problems. A new preprint study shows how ...

From powering search engines to securing data and optimizing networks, algorithms underpin nearly every aspect of modern technology. Understanding how efficiently they can solve problems — and where ...

Microsoft is investigating a bug that causes Copilot issues when multiple Office apps are running simultaneously on the same system. According to a support document published on Friday, this bug ...

President Donald Trump says he has “the answer to autism” and plans to reveal those findings in a highly anticipated report during a Sept. 22 afternoon White House event. The report comes after Health ...

The U.S. government is adding more questions to the civics test that applicants need to pass to become American citizens, the latest step by the Trump administration to tighten the legal immigration ...

We don’t live in a vacuum. We are perpetually bumping up against a mix of life’s circumstances, which can interrupt and influence us, even when we’re unaware of their impact. These contexts of our ...