Samuli Siltanen explains how solving an “inverse problem” will improve the quality of life of people who can’t speak and have to use voice synthesizers – particularly women and children, whose only ...

There is a seemingly endless list of problems to be solved and issues to be addressed in vendors’ steady march toward quantum computing. Researchers in Europe say they recently solved a “decades-old ...

Scientists have programmed bacteria to work together to identify prime numbers, recognize vowels, and even calculate the maximum number of slice a pizza can yield with a given number of straight cuts ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Say you want to send a private message, cast a secret vote, or sign a document securely. If you do any of these tasks on a computer, you ...

They say a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, but for computer scientists, two birds in a hole are better still. That’s because those cohabiting birds are the protagonists of a deceptively ...