The setup of the ingenious computer that works with tension and springs. Credit: St. Olaf College It has no wires, no silicon ...

Machine learning can get a boost from quantum physics. On certain types of machine learning tasks, quantum computers have an exponential advantage over standard computation, scientists report in the ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Physicists at Princeton, Harvard and MIT have made a major breakthrough in the study of quantum computing by successfully ...

Quantum Science and Engineering is the study and application of the principles of quantum mechanics (such as superposition and entanglement) to develop new technologies that surpass the limits of ...

The Nobel prize season is in full swing, with the physics prize to be awarded Tuesday. The prizes are named after Swedish scientist Alfred Nobel (1833-1896 ...

As a teenager in the Czech Republic, Lenka Zdeborová glimpsed her future in an Isaac Asimov novel. A character in Asimov’s “Foundation” series invents a mathematical method for predicting the path of ...

These days Sneha Mitra, PhD, spends a lot of time thinking about T cells — a type of white blood cell that helps protect the body from infection and cancer. A postdoctoral fellow at the Sloan ...

The award, recognizing early-career faculty, will support research in computer science and physics. William Gilpin, Daehyeok Kim, and Edoardo Baldini won NSF CAREER awards. Three faculty members from ...

The Staff Selection Commission has called for applications to empanel Subject Matter Experts across four disciplines, ...