In the past, experts developed calculating machines that worked with three digits, a ternary system, that they hoped would ...

The mind-bending concept of time dilation results from a seemingly harmless assumption—that the speed of light is the same ...

Northwestern Engineering faculty and students participated in the annual forum for advances in theory, empirics, and ...

In the quest to better understand quantum capacity, leaders in the industry could consider the potential for efficient modularity.

Military technologies have always been at the forefront of scientific progress. They are associated with a large number of ...

A clever method from Caltech researchers now makes it possible to unravel complex electron-lattice interactions, potentially transforming how we understand and design quantum and electronic materials.

The Langlands programme has inspired and befuddled mathematicians for more than 50 years. A major advance has now opened up ...

Mathematicians have solved a decades-old problem in knot theory, discovering that linking two knots together can actually produce a knot that is easier to untie – the opposite of what was expected ...

The quantum computing revolution draws ever nearer, but the need for a computer that makes correctable errors continues to ...

Kenneth Merz, Ph.D., of Cleveland Clinic's Center for Computational Life Sciences and a team are exploring how quantum ...

One computer scientist’s “stunning” proof is the first progress in 50 years on one of the most famous questions in computer ...