Quantum walks sound abstract, but they sit at the center of a very concrete race: who will harness quantum mechanics to solve problems that overwhelm today’s most powerful supercomputers. Instead of ...

Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a new approach that addresses the limitations of generative AI ...

By operating in the gray zone, states preserve escalation optionality, avoid reputation-locking commitments, and retain the ability to shift posture without incurring sudden political or strategic ...

Inspired by biological systems, materials scientists have long sought to harness self-assembly to build nanomaterials. The ...

Tessellations aren’t just eye-catching patterns—they can be used to crack complex mathematical problems. By repeatedly ...

Sandia National Labs today released an update on its neuromorphic computing research, reporting that these systems, inspired ...

Every online bank transfer, private message and Bitcoin transaction rests on the assumption that some math problems are ...

It's highly recommended to recruit Aza before completing this quest. Aza's companion quest requires you to clear out the N-Ray Range anyway, so you can kill two birds with one stone. Acquire the N-Ray ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1974, five years before he wrote his Pulitzer Prize–winning book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter was ...