Traditional encryption methods have long been vulnerable to quantum computers, but two new analyses suggest a capable enough ...

Scientists used the quipu’s data to build working spreadsheets, file systems, and encryption tools, rivaling conventional ...

More than 2,000 years ago, Greek artisans built a compact machine of interlocking gears that could track the heavens with a precision that still unsettles modern engineers. The corroded fragments of ...

The code cracking machines of the 1940’s are often referred to as the first computers, but they could not have been developed ...

Using a powerful machine made up of 56 trapped-ion quantum bits, or qubits, researchers have achieved something once thought impossible. They have proven, for the first time, that a quantum computer ...