Today's encryption works well, until tomorrow's quantum computers arrive. This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert ...

Complex numbers are created when you add a real number and an imaginary number (like “i”). These numbers are used throughout ...

University of Iowa researchers have discovered a method to "purify" photons, an advance that could make optical quantum ...

When we look at the world at the tiniest scales, things get very weird. Take a wild ride through the quantum world, from the discoveries that reveal its strange rules to the amazing technologies it ...

We have developed a new way to secure video transmissions so even quantum computers in the future won’t be able to break into private video livestreams or recordings. We are computer scientists who ...

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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Yashas Hariprasad, California State University, East Bay and S. S. Iyengar, Florida ...