The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...

One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling discovery about the relationship between time and memory in computing.

Cloud-native and multicloud environments give technology teams more flexibility in how they build, deploy and scale systems. But that added flexibility can also create more moving parts, making it ...

Understanding the quantum control landscape (QCL) is important for designing effective quantum control strategies. In this study, we analyze the QCL for a single two-level quantum system (qubit) using ...

In 1973, John Archibald Wheeler described the relationship between space and matter in two sentences: “Space acts on matter, telling it how to move. In turn, matter reacts back on space, telling it ...

We’ve been discussing simplifying protocol designs for decades. And yet, a phase III protocol today collects nearly 6 million data points on average; a figure that’s been climbing by roughly 11% ...