An “echo” that arrives before you finish speaking sounds like a glitch. In quantum hardware, that kind of self-interference ...

What business leaders need to do right now. Right now, criminal and state-sponsored hackers are intercepting and storing encrypted data they cannot yet decode. Likely targets include everything from ...

Sometimes a visually compelling metaphor is all you need to get an otherwise complicated idea across. In the summer of 2001, a Tulane physics professor named John P.

Scientists built a quantum gate linking four-state photons, showing complex quantum tasks can be done with fewer steps using qudits.

Henry Yuen is developing a new mathematical language to describe problems whose inputs and outputs aren’t ordinary numbers.

In the event that quantum computers one day become capable of breaking Bitcoin’s cryptography, roughly 1 million BTC attributed to Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of the Bitcoin network, could become ...

Rigetti Computing is a leader in the quantum industry, and it continues to rapidly improve the performance and error rates of ...

Quantum computing firm Xanadu has launched a new research initiative with defense giant Lockheed ...

For centuries, the concept of consciousness has intrigued philosophers and scientists alike. Often deemed too abstract for scientific exploration, consciousness has been largely left to philosophical ...

Quantum computing is moving from theory to reality faster than many people expected—and that has major implications for cryptocurrency security.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has dismissed fears about the potential threats of quantum computing on blockchain; he calls it solvable.