If something looks and sounds stupid, but it really works, then it’s not actually stupid! Problems don’t always need to be ...

John Martinis has already revolutionised quantum computing twice. Now, he is working on another radical rethink of the technology that could deliver machines with unrivalled capabilities ...

Scientists warn that rapid advances in AI and neurotechnology are outpacing our understanding of consciousness, creating ...

How can quantum field theories be best formulated on a lattice to optimally simulate them on a computer? The answer comes ...

Students at an Arizona school have built a full-scale replica of ENIAC, marking 80 years since the dedication of the computer at the University of Pennsylvania. ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...

A professor at the University of Cincinnati and his colleagues have figured out something two of America's most famous fictional physicists couldn't: how to theoretically produce subatomic particles ...

Quantum computing promises a new generation of computers capable of solving problems hundreds of millions of times more quickly than today’s fastest supercomputers. This is done by harnessing spooky ...

All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in general, research mathematicians don’t need to think about it ...

In several interviews (like this one with Anderson Cooper), Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel Prize-winning "godfather of AI," has defended the view that we must give maternal feelings to artificial ...