It's a well-known fact that quantum calculations are difficult, but one would think that quantum computers would facilitate the process. In most cases, this is true.

Ian Millhiser is a senior correspondent at Vox, where he focuses on the Supreme Court, the Constitution, and the decline of liberal democracy in the United States. He received a JD from Duke ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court justices on Tuesday heard a free-speech challenge to state laws against “conversion therapy” and sounded likely to rule the measures violate the 1st Amendment.

(via Sabine Hossenfelder) Progress in the foundations of physics is moving slowly. And yet it moves. Today I look at the five biggest problems in physics, what their status is, and how long it will ...

Swinburne University of Technology provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Violent crime involving young people is causing significant community concern in Victoria. The recent fatal ...

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 ...

A survey suggests four out of five drivers in England want government action on pavement parking, However, respondents remained divided on the best approach. Pavement parking is currently banned only ...

Dear Annie: Last October, my son and I bought a home with a pool. My fiancé’s son, who had not visited his father in years, offered to drive the moving truck. My fiancé could not lift much due to a ...

Tiny organisms live in a world where the usual rules of motion feel upside-down. Water that slips through our fingers turns syrupy at their scale, dragging against every twitch. Yet a sperm cell or a ...

Newton served as interim dean of the university's law school from 2022 to 2023. She has had six deanships totally nearly 23 years. A national search for a permanent provost will be announced soon.

At the forefront of discovery, where cutting-edge scientific questions are tackled, we often don’t have much data. Conversely, successful machine learning (ML) tends to rely on large, high quality ...

Using an advanced Monte Carlo method, Caltech researchers found a way to tame the infinite complexity of Feynman diagrams and solve the long-standing polaron problem, unlocking deeper understanding of ...