The system employs HMAC-SHA256 (Hash-based Message Authentication Code using SHA-256) for license integrity verification. SHA-256 refers to the Secure Hash Algorithm producing 256-bit hash values (see ...

Black holes are among the most extreme objects in the universe, and now scientists can model them more accurately than ever ...

The fund seeks to enable researchers to make leaps rather than incremental advances in the natural sciences and engineering.

Cloud Access: Quantum computers are increasingly available through the cloud. This means more people and smaller companies ...

Quantum Computing Hardware Advancements It feels like every week there’s some new development in quantum computing hardware.

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 ...

Google’s Willow quantum computer (pictured here) is delivering. Image credits: Google. “Today, we’re announcing research that shows — for the first time in history — that a quantum computer can ...

Alphabet Inc.’s Google ran an algorithm on its “Willow” quantum-computing chip that can be repeated on similar platforms and outperform classical supercomputers, a breakthrough it said clears a path ...

A few years back, Google made waves when it claimed that some of its hardware had achieved quantum supremacy, performing operations that would be effectively impossible to simulate on a classical ...

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are being embedded in every aspect of the drug discovery and development process. In the preclinical stages, for example, companies are using advanced AI ...

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 ...