Quantum computers struggle because their qubits are incredibly easy to disrupt, especially during calculations. A new ...

When it comes to their federal income tax returns, tens of millions of US households pay for tax preparation and filing. Yet ...

Photonics is promising to handle extensive vector multiplications in AI applications. Scientists in China have promoted a programmable and reconfigurable photonic linear vector machine named SUANPAN, ...

Time feels steady and familiar in daily life, but at the quantum level it becomes slippery. That puzzle now has a fresh twist thanks to new research led by physicists at École Polytechnique Fédérale ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cracked down on lead-based products—including lead paint and leaded gasoline—in the 1970s because of its toxic effects on human health. Scientists at the ...

Using a 78-qubit superconducting quantum processor known as "Chuang-tzu 2.0", researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences'Institute of Physics and the Peking University observed and controlled a ...

A new, non-peer-reviewed report argues that Egypt’s Great Pyramid may be far older than the familiar Old Kingdom timeline, proposing an age in the order of tens of thousands of years. The claim hinges ...

Cory Doctorow and Tim Wu explain why the internet failed to live up to its early promise.

Physicists have found a way to measure how long ultra-fast quantum events actually take—without using a clock at all.

Why is it that natural disasters consistently catch us off guard, with crucial lessons learned, only becoming apparent after ...