Quantum computing is widely expected to disrupt modern cryptography. Many of today’s encryption systems rely on mathematical ...

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A quantum computer capable of breaking the encryption that secures the internet now seems to be just around the corner. Stunning revelations from two research teams outline how it could happen, with ...

An international team of scientists proved the never-before-seen molecule's exotic nature using a quantum computer, potentially ushering in new scientific opportunities.

Google has announced plans to migrate to post-quantum cryptography (PQC) by 2029, moving up its timeline given recent progress in the field and emerging threat vectors. In February, the web giant ...

Years before emails, internet banking, cloud servers and cryptocurrency wallets, two scientists devised a way to keep secrets perfectly safe and indecipherable to eavesdropping outsiders. Their 1984 ...

In the 1980s, Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard created a new kind of encryption that would be impregnable. By Cade Metz Cade Metz has reported on quantum technologies since the 1990s. In the ...

One of the biggest promises of quantum computing is the ability to simulate molecules with unprecedented accuracy. If quantum computers could do this efficiently, this may speed up the discovery of ...

Last week, IBM trumpeted its contributions to a rather unusual paper: the production of a molecule with a half-Möbius topology, assisted by an algorithm run in part on a quantum computer. There was, ...