Calculations show that injecting randomness into a quantum neural network could help it determine properties of quantum ...

Physicists uncover a universal limit on timekeeping precision, proving that anything from heartbeats to ocean waves can be a ...

Quantum computers promise to tackle problems that are unsolvable for today’s machines, but their basic units (qubits) are incredibly fragile. Even a tiny disturbance can wipe out the entire delicate ...

A major outage at internet infrastructure firm Cloudflare knocked parts of the internet offline, disrupting access to X, NJ Transit, ChatGPT and other major platforms ...

Everyone makes mistakes—and sometimes those mistakes can lead to surprising discoveries. In the early 1990s, while programming the computer game Doom, game developer John Carmack set the value of pi ...

The U.S. Senate on Monday passed the Internal Revenue Service Math and Taxpayer Help Act, H.R. 998, which, among other changes, requires the IRS to provide taxpayers ...

A collage shows a red X over a person in a chemistry lab conducting an experiment. Credit: Madeline Monroe/C&EN/Shutterstock More than 20% of chemistry researchers ...

A photo supplied by Bechtel depicts what it said was an example of a correctly set bracket fastener for a formwork climbing system of the type used at a Port Arthur, Texas, LNG export terminal project ...

In recent years, quantum computers have begun to handle double-digit quantum bits, or qubits. However, many essential applications targeted by quantum computers, such as quantum chemistry, ...

A behind-the-scenes blog about research methods at Pew Research Center. For our latest findings, visit pewresearch.org. Every survey finding published by Pew Research ...

A group of more than 85 scientists have issued a joint rebuttal to a recent U.S. Department of Energy report about climate change, finding it full of errors and misrepresenting climate science. This ...