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Cryptography’s Future Will Be Quantum-Safe. Here’s How It Will Work.

IntroductionIn 1994, the computer scientist Peter Shor discovered that if quantum computers were ever invented, they would decimate much of the infrastructure used to...

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New Entanglement Results Hint at Better Quantum Codes

IntroductionThis month, three scientists won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work proving one of the most counterintuitive yet consequential realities of the...

Mathematicians Discover the Fibonacci Numbers Hiding in Strange Spaces

Fourteen years ago, the mathematicians Dusa McDuff and Felix Schlenk stumbled upon a hidden geometric garden that is only now beginning to flower. The...

Lab-Grown Human Cells Form Working Circuits in Rat Brains

Our understanding of the inner workings of the human brain has long been held back by the practical and ethical difficulty of observing human...

How Do You Prove a Secret?

Imagine you had some useful knowledge — maybe a secret recipe, or the key to a cipher. Could you prove to a friend that...

Machine Learning Highlights a Hidden Order in Scents

Alex Wiltschko began collecting perfumes as a teenager. His first bottle was Azzaro Pour Homme, a timeless cologne he spotted on the shelf at...

Molecule-Building Innovators Win Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless have been awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of click chemistry and...

Pioneering Quantum Physicists Win Nobel Prize in Physics

The physicists Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger have won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for experiments that proved the profoundly strange...

Geneticist Awarded Nobel Prize for Studies of Extinct Human Ancestors

The geneticist and evolutionary anthropologist Svante Pääbo has won this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his pioneering work in studies of...

Biologists Use Genetic Circuits to Program Plant Roots

When the physicist Richard Feynman died in 1988, he left a note on his blackboard that read, “What I cannot create, I do not...

How Mathematical Curves Enable Advanced Communication

Given a collection of points in space, can you find a certain type of curve that passes through all of them? This question —...

Chaos Researchers Can Now Predict Perilous Points of No Return

Predicting complex systems like the weather is famously difficult. But at least the weather’s governing equations don’t change from one day to the next....

How Transformers Seem to Mimic Parts of the Brain

Understanding how the brain organizes and accesses spatial information — where we are, what’s around the corner, how to get there — remains an...

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