In theory, quantum physics can bypass the hard mathematical problems at the root of modern encryption. A new proof shows how.

Attackers are no longer probing the edges. They are embedding themselves for months or even years deep inside the systems ...

Researchers now say OpenAI’s GPT-5 has helped prove strict limits on quantum computing mechanism by error reduction theorem ...

For the first time, researchers have mathematically proven that a quantum computer needs less computational power to solve a ...

While error correction should become more effective as the number of physical qubits in a logical qubit increases, adding ...

Imagine the tap of a card that bought you a cup of coffee this morning also let a hacker halfway across the world access your bank account and buy themselves whatever they liked. Now imagine it wasn’t ...

Tucked away inside the research campuses of IBM and Los Alamos Laboratory, two researchers just unlocked one of the biggest technological breakthroughs of the century. And guess what? Almost no one is ...

Nobel Prize winners showcase quantum tunnelling in macroscopic circuits, paving the way for quantum computing.

At first glance, the Fibonacci sequence might seem like no more than a bit of mathematical trickery. But look around, and it pops up again and again and again, in computer science and in nature. It’s ...

Scientists are like prospectors, excavating the natural world seeking gems of knowledge about physical reality. And in the century just past, scientists have dug deep enough to discover that reality’s ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the ...