Towards the end of last year, Rashik Parmar began getting calls from anxious students who had just graduated with degrees in ...

What if, no matter how strong your password was, a hacker could crack it just as easily as you can type it? In fact, what if all sorts of puzzles we thought were hard turned out to be easy?

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 ...

Universal Quantum has staked its reputation on the trapped-ion approach, allowing it to scale in the quickest and most ...

Alexander Bobenko has spent the past 20 years chewing on mathematical doughnuts. In the 2000s, he tried to prove that compact ...

“Imagine a computation that produces a new bit of information in every step, based on the bits that it has computed so far. Over t steps of time, it may generate up to t new bits of information in ...

While standard models suffer from context rot as data grows, MIT’s new Recursive Language Model (RLM) framework treats ...

As the four-person crew of Artemis II prepares to launch on a historic mission around the moon as soon as February, some ...

There are many reasons why psychological treatments aren’t more effective. In principle, misdiagnosis is the easiest of them ...

OpenAI's GPT-5.2 Pro has solved multiple decades-old Erdős math problems, but Fields Medalist Terence Tao says the wins ...

Professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities Katherine Elkins is the director of the integrated program in humane ...

The future of work will demand fluency in both science and technology. From addressing climate change to designing ethical AI systems, tomorrow’s challenges will require interdisciplinary thinkers who ...