John Martinis is a hardware guy. He prefers the nitty-gritty of doing physics in the lab over the idealised world of textbooks. But you couldn’t write the quantum computing history books without him: ...

Prism is a ChatGPT-powered text editor that automates much of the work involved in writing scientific papers. OpenAI just revealed what its new in-house team, OpenAI for Science, has been up to. The ...

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions that are advertised as artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding assistants, but also harbor ...

Researchers from the University of Waterloo's Faculty of Science and the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) are prioritizing collaboration over competition to advance quantum computer development ...

Last week at CES, Lego introduced its new Smart Play system, with a tech-packed Smart Brick that can recognize and interact with sets and minifigures. It was unexpected and delightful to see Lego come ...

The award winning OpenMC software package is helping researchers at Argonne National Laboratory and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology develop next generation nuclear and fusion reactors with ...

Anthropic has released a new AI tool, Cowork, that allows users to collaborate with the AI model Claude directly in their computer files. Not just via text chat. The tool is based on the same ...

Anthropic’s agentic tool Claude Code has been an enormous hit with some software developers and hobbyists, and now the company is bringing that modality to more general office work with a new feature ...

Q: How can I tell what’s causing my Windows computer to bog down? A: When a computer starts crawling, most people assume it’s old, broken or infected. In reality, it’s often just overwhelmed. One ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...

Tony Scott had already boarded his flight from Seattle to Dallas back in July when his problems started. It was about 8 p.m. on a Sunday night when the flight crew asked the passengers to get off the ...