This walking tour explores Alexanderplatz in central Berlin, Germany, on a bright sunny day. Viewers see the World Time Clock ...

From basic research to superweapons, pushing science to its limits is costly. You won't believe how much went into these ...

The idea that artificial intelligence can “reason” is more intuitive than ever. But intuitions can be wrong, and the science is far from settled.

From Nobel laureate Demis Hassabis to MIT, Stanford, DeepMind, and Apple, Greek scientists are helping shape the future of ...

There are many algorithms for which it has been mathematically proven that a quantum computer can generate results that would ...

Quantum computing is an emerging field within engineering and computer science that poses tremendous cybersecurity challenges for governments, ...

The only snag was that “Shor’s algorithm”, as it is now known, required something that at the time only existed on university ...

The company has drawn governments, a major chipmaker, and the Pentagon into an effort to control fragile photons and build a useful quantum machine. It aims to be the first.

If Julius Caesar had debuted this year, William Shakespeare might have been accused of writing it with AI. A certain suspicious rhetorical device appears again and again in the play. It’s in Act I, ...

The Rumkale fortress ruins sit on the banks of the Euphrates River in Turkey. Carole Raddato via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 2.0 Around 6,000 years ago, the world’s earliest known civilization ...

After 80 years of fruitless struggle by human mathematicians, a major geometry conjecture has at last been solved—via a straightforward query to a chatbot. “No previous AI-generated proof has come ...

Scientists were wrong about this “rule-breaking” particle A famous particle physics mystery that once hinted at a hidden fifth force has now collapsed under the most precise calculations ever ...