One paper finds that attacking the bitcoin blockchain through quantum mining would demand the energy output of a star.

The Kardar Parisi Zhang equation models surface growth. After forty years, researchers confirmed its two dimensional behavior using polaritons in engineered materials.

Crystals, bacterial colonies, flame fronts: the growth of surfaces was first described in the 1980s by the ...

Data science is everywhere, a driving force behind modern decisions. When a streaming service suggests a movie, a bank sends ...

A medical, humanitarian, transhumanist and politically neutral project: This is how Neuralink has described itself since it ...

Harvard researchers have launched the Differential Privacy Deployments Registry, a public database that catalogs real-world uses of differential privacy by companies and agencies to better protect ...

When Apple discovers trending popular emojis, or when Google reports traffic at a busy restaurant, they're analyzing large ...

Understanding how a crack grows in metal requires simultaneously calculating the behavior of hundreds of billions of atoms: ...

The Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation has been experimentally verified for the first time on 2D surfaces - thanks to sophisticated material design and polaritons. The question of how surfaces grow is one ...

Cerf’s February 2026 Communications Cerf’s Up column, “Does AI Now Represent a Paradigm Shift?” rightly characterizes modern ...

Cardiovascular diseases remain the leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for nearly 20 million deaths each year. Rapid ...

Fujitsu quantum researcher Shinji Kikuchi discusses the quantum computing paradigm shift expected around 2030, as well as how ...