Oracle-based quantum algorithms cannot use deep loops because quantum states exist only as mathematical amplitudes in Hilbert space with no physical substrate. Criticall ...

A Las Vegas substitute teacher was fired after she was filmed using the n-word in class while asking why white people aren’t allowed to say it. The white substitute teacher, who has not been publicly ...

Mathematicians are still trying to understand fundamental properties of the Fourier transform, one of their most ubiquitous and powerful tools. A new result marks an exciting advance toward that goal.

Welcome to Eye on AI. In this edition…AI is outperforming some professionals…Google plans to bring ads to Gemini…leading AI labs team up on AI agent standards…a new effort to give AI models a longer ...

New research published in the International Journal of Sexual Health suggests that the reasons why individuals watch pornography are more predictive of their sexual health than how often they watch it ...

Amateur mathematicians are using artificial intelligence chatbots to solve long-standing problems, in a move that has taken professionals by surprise. While the problems in question aren’t the most ...

Now, poll time! Stranger Things will undoubtedly be the big draw for the Netflix top 10 report next week, so we’re putting an under or over poll. Vote below whether you think Stranger Things volume 1 ...

Welcome to The Workup, a First Opinion column from Vishal Khetpal. In 1912, on the banks of the Seine in Paris, Lawrence Sperry, an aviation pioneer, debuted his invention of the autopilot, as he and ...

Drew Swanson is a Features Article Editor from the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Being a gamer all his life and enjoying everything from ARPGs like Diablo to JRPGs like Pokemon and Persona, ...

When engineers build AI language models like GPT-5 from training data, at least two major processing features emerge: memorization (reciting exact text they’ve seen before, like famous quotes or ...

BEIJING—I got a glimpse of a technology that soon could be spreading around the world—if not the U.S. It is a Chinese robotaxi. One of the two I tried featured executive-style chairs and ample luggage ...

The European debt crisis of the early 2010s created an image of a continent cleaved in two: The fiscally responsible core countries led by Germany versus the spendthrift southern periphery of Portugal ...