Quantum computers—devices that process information using quantum mechanical effects—have long been expected to outperform ...

A new suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to rewrite notions of time and evolution. In 1950 the Italian physicist Enrico ...

Samar Khatiwala receives funding from UKRI. Climate models are some of the most complex pieces of software ever written, able to simulate a vast number of different parts of the overall system, such ...

When Edsger W. Dijkstra published his algorithm in 1959, computer networks were barely a thing. The algorithm in question found the shortest path between any two nodes on a graph, with a variant ...