Quantum walks sound abstract, but they sit at the center of a very concrete race: who will harness quantum mechanics to solve ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in general, research mathematicians don’t need to think about it ...

ABSTRACT: The golden age of digital chips seems to be coming to an end. For decades, we have relied on making transistors smaller and increasing clock speeds to improve performance. However, when chip ...

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 ...

Officials confirmed Tuesday that the state of Nevada’s computer network was targeted in a cyberattack and is under active state and federal investigation as IT staffers work to restore service. The ...

A notorious cybercriminal group has shifted its attention to the aviation industry, successfully breaching the computer networks of multiple airlines in the United States and Canada this month, ...

Clearing your search history or using an incognito browser will not magically reveal lower prices. As our experts explain, flight prices are determined by a wide range of variables in real time, so ...

Abstract: Traditional routing protocols, such as RIP and OSPF, encounter a series of issues—including slow convergence and high average latency—when faced with the exponential growth of network ...

Discover the key types of network traffic and their role in optimizing performance plus real-world examples to see how they impact data flow. Identifying network traffic types is vital because it ...