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Using a conventional computer and cutting-edge mathematical tools and code, physicists at the Center for Computational ...

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A new debate in quantum physics is shaking the foundations of modern science. Tim Palmerargues that nature may not follow continuous mathematics at all. His theory questions irrational numbers, wave ...

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A new method to distribute cryptographic keys using terahertz waves could help enable secure communication in the ...

To keep communications secure in a post-quantum world, cryptographers are digging down into the concept of cause and effect.

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On Q-Day, your privacy will be at stake. This is the moment when quantum computers break the encryption protecting the modern ...

The day when a quantum computer can crack commonly used forms of encryption is drawing closer. The world isn’t prepared, ...