The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

Designed to accelerate advances in medicine and other fields, the tech giant’s quantum algorithm runs 13,000 times as fast as software written for a traditional supercomputer. A quantum computer at ...

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...

Nearly a decade has passed since Safiya Noble googled "Black girls" and found the search results were mostly pornographic - a ...

Needing to redraw North Carolina's legislative districts under a court order, lawmakers last year employed a state lottery ...

“Today, we’re announcing research that shows — for the first time in history — that a quantum computer can successfully run a verifiable algorithm on hardware,” Google writes in a new blog post. The ...

Teams looking to turn around their fortunes clash when the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders face the Delaware Blue Hens in a Conference USA matchup on Wednesday. MTSU is coming off a 22-20 loss to ...

The UCLA Bruins look to stay hot when they take on the second-ranked Indiana Hoosiers in a key Big Ten matchup on Saturday. UCLA, led by interim head coach Tim Skipper, is coming off a 20-17 win over ...

A student-led research group from Tohoku University has discovered a new species of the venomous Physalia (commonly known as Portuguese man-of-war) that has never been seen before in northeast Japan.

Machine learning is the ability of a machine to improve its performance based on previous results. Machine learning methods enable computers to learn without being explicitly programmed and have ...

Nvidia's Titan graphics cards were an industry-lauded lineup that any PC gamer would be thrilled to have running alongside their CPU and other peripherals. Once hailed for extreme power and ...