The world of quantum computing is a noisy place, where error correction is needed to ensure quantum devices run correctly ...

Online data is generally pretty secure. but quantum computing is advancing faster than expected and existing encryption may ...

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 ...

Future quantum computers will need to be less powerful than we thought to threaten the security of encrypted messages.

Descriptive set theorists study the niche mathematics of infinity. Now, they’ve shown that their problems can be rewritten in the concrete language of algorithms. All of modern mathematics is built on ...