Google researchers say quantum computers could crack Bitcoin’s encryption using fewer resources than expected. ... Read More ...

The settlement rails are built, now the industry has to prove what's running on them.

Somewhere on a blockchain right now, a Bitcoin address that last moved coins in 2015 is sitting with its public key fully ...

One of the cleanest rules in theoretical physics may have a crack in it. A preprint posted in May 2026 by physicists Vladimir ...

To this day, in the known universe, only one example exists of a system capable of general-purpose intelligence. That system is the human brain.

GPT-5.4 Pro cracked a conjecture in number theory that had stumped generations of mathematicians, using a proof strategy that ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

The cast of ‘Proof’ at King’s College includes, clockwise from bottom left: Matt Bell as Hal; Finch Plaspohl as Claire; Gretta Rogan as Catherine and Noah McGinnis as Robert. The play opens March 26 ...

Over the weekend, FBI Director Kash Patel said he would sue The Atlantic for defamation over an article that went into detail about his alleged drinking habits. Former Rep. Eric Swalwell faces DOJ ...

Those changes will be contested, in math as in other academic disciplines wrestling with AI’s impact. As AI models become a ...

This Timeline article charts progress in mathematical modelling of cancer over the past 50 years, highlighting the different theoretical approaches that have been used to dissect the disease and the ...