CEO Matt Garman announced Amazon will stop using secret agreements with county officials and acknowledges community backlash could lead to data center "moratoriums" across the country.

Mathematics has been one of humanity’s most creative endeavors, akin to painting and poetry. Now, mathematicians are trying to save it from the brute force of AI.

Zulfi Alam thinks his team doesn’t need to “prove” they engineered a new state of matter in their bid to reinvent computing. Science would disagree.

Proposed changes to the duration of status policy would affect many students and scholars. To raise awareness, five shared their stories.

The Trump administration wants a useful quantum computer in two years. Microsoft wants one in three. Independent researchers cry hype.

The company, along with others, is pursuing a new paradigm for cramming more transistors on chips—building up.

A peer-reviewed critique of Majorana 1 claims Microsoft did not conclusively demonstrate a working topological qubit. Microsoft disagrees.

As concerns about climate change grow, researchers from fields ranging from gravitational-wave astronomy to condensed-matter physics are finding unexpected opportunities to contribute to climate resea...

At the APS Global Physics Summit, physics researchers showcased innovative card, board, and video games for school-aged children (and playful adults).

New policy hands universities the reins in probing allegations against faculty

Proposed changes to the duration of status policy would affect many students and scholars. To raise awareness, five shared their stories.

Researchers exploit quantum entanglement to measure the interference of light signals from two distant detectors, opening a path toward quantum-enhanced astronomy.

Director Stanley Kubrick packed the iconic movie with accurate depictions of space and physics, and inspired a generation of sci-fi films.

Through a quantum-switch experiment, researchers attempt to reveal “indefinite causal order”—a quantum phenomenon involving events in a before-and-after superposition.

‘This is the beginning of a conversation,’ councilmember Christopher Wyche said of the four-hour meeting, during which reps from the data center industry, labor unions, and environmental groups joined...

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A group of physicists are developing a quantum computer that’s entirely open source, from hardware to software

Don't let the catchy name distract you, says Philip Ball: the questions inspired by this arguably misnamed phenomenon go to the heart of quantum theory.

Data-center operators try to recycle retired hardware, but a broken global recycling infrastructure stands in the way.

Quantinuum has unveiled a third-generation quantum computer that could be easier to scale up than rival approaches.

As a kid in Ukraine, Mariia Mykhailova wrote code on paper. Now she writes books on quantum computing.

Physicists are exploring a quantum-mechanical approach to making smaller radio wave detectors.

Sergio Cantu’s dual mission spans multiple continents.

The company says it has cracked the code for error correction and is building a modular machine in New York state.

The European Space Agency’s ACES mission could ultimately pave the way for a global network of atomic clocks that make these measurements far more accurate.

Data centres accounted for roughly 1.5% of global electricity consumption in 2024.

The country poured billions into AI infrastructure, but the data center gold rush is unraveling as speculative investments collide with weak demand and DeepSeek shifts AI trends.

Pretending racism does not exist will not stop Donald Trump's attack on higher education.

Physicists continue to argue over Microsoft’s qubit claims. The entire field hangs in a delicate balance.

A Chinese team has transmitted quantum-encrypted images a record 12,900 kilometres.

D-Wave's claim that its quantum computers can solve problems that would take hundreds of years on classical machines have been undermined by two separate research groups showing that even an ordinary ...

Researchers have criticised Microsoft's new Majorana 1 quantum computer, saying it has made claims about the way it works that aren't fully backed up by scientific evidence

Analysis pokes holes in protocol that underpins Microsoft’s claim to have created the first topological qubits.

Researchers want firms to be more transparent about the electricity demands of artificial intelligence.

Dubbed Ocelot, it’s designed to correct errors with less hardware overhead.

A Canadian startup called Xanadu has built a photon-based quantum computer it says should easily scale up.

Catherine Espaillat’s research centers on an existential question. “How do planets form, in our solar system and beyond?” the Boston University astronomer asks.   She looks to answer this question by ...

Many AI companies implement safety systems to protect users from offensive or inaccurate content. Though well intentioned, these filters can exacerbate existing inequalities, and data shows that they ...