A quantum computer made of charged atoms can catch its own errors when performing any operation – a meaningful step towards more reliable and practical quantum computers. Conventional computers ...

Most of us first hear about the irrational number π (pi)—rounded off as 3.14, with an infinite number of decimal digits—in ...

On Monday, Nature released a paper from Google’s quantum computing team that provides a key demonstration of the potential of quantum error correction. Thanks to an ...

Nucleon numbers The research team found a new way of calculating the size of atomic nuclei such as the ones represented on this grid. (Courtesy: Serdar Elhatisari) A new way of calculating the size of ...

Noisy but nice: close up of part of IBM’s Eagle quantum processor, which was used in this latest research. (Courtesy: IBM) A 127-qubit quantum processor has been used by an international team of ...

A logical paradox at the heart of mathematics and computer science turns out to have implications for the real world, making a basic question about matter fundamentally unanswerable. In 1931, Austrian ...