The first nation to achieve quantum supremacy doesn’t just win a science prize. It wins the ability to break every encryption ...

The US administration is banking on public-private partnerships and an expanded workforce to deliver progress, but critics ...

Quantum computing has long been viewed as a threat to cryptocurrencies, a technology that could one day crack the ...

Governments and tech companies continue to pour money into quantum technology in the hopes of building a supercomputer that can work at speeds we can't yet fathom to solve big problems.

This year, quantum science and computing came up a lot. There have been broad claims that quantum science and engineering ...

A new research paper by Google Quantum AI researcher Craig Gidney shows that breaking widely used RSA encryption may require 20 times fewer quantum resources than previously believed. The finding did ...

At the Q2B Silicon Valley conference, scientific and business leaders of the quantum computing industry hailed "spectacular" ...

For years, the conversation around quantum computing and cryptocurrency has been dominated by a single, breathless question: Will a quantum breakthrough kill Bitcoin? The fear is simple enough.

Like their conventional counterparts, quantum computers can also break down. They can sometimes lose the atoms they ...

Controlling qubits with quantum superpositions allows them to dramatically violate a fundamental limit and encode information ...

Using ultracold atoms and laser light, researchers recreated the behavior of a Josephson junction—an essential component of ...