Google's quantum paper made headlines with that number. Here's what it means, what's actually at risk, and why 6.9 million ...

Starting with simple repetition codes and parity bits, it shows how smarter strategies can protect entire messages with fewer extra bits. You will see how overlapping parity checks create a cascade ...

Over the weekend, Neel Somani, who is a software engineer, former quant researcher, and a startup founder, was testing the math skills of OpenAI’s new model when he made an unexpected discovery. After ...

Neuromorphic computers, inspired by the architecture of the human brain, are proving surprisingly adept at solving complex mathematical problems that underpin scientific and engineering challenges.

After years of steep increases, renters are finally seeing sustained price relief, a trend that appears to be carrying into early 2026. In November, the median asking rent across the 50 largest U.S.

A startup hopes to challenge Nvidia, AMD, and Intel with a chip that wrangles probabilities rather than 1s and 0s. The startup’s chips work in a fundamentally different way than chips from Nvidia, AMD ...

After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ended up disproving a 40-year-old conjecture. It’s not that anyone ever said ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1994, an earthquake of a proof shook up the mathematical world. The mathematician Andrew Wiles had finally settled Fermat’s Last ...

Twitch streamer Jason “Pirate Software” is at the center of controversy again, this time over accusations that he faked his record-breaking Twitch Subscribers Hype Train by working behind the scenes ...