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Imagine working in an office where, once you’ve finished one task, you had to wait until everyone in all the other cubicles completed the tasks they were working on before you could move on to your next assignment. That’s how most digital devices that rely on synchronous circuits work. Built-in cloc...

Josh Tenenbaum, a professor of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, directs research on the development of intelligence at the Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines, a multiuniversity, multidisciplinary project based at MIT that seeks to explain and replicate human intelligence. Presenting their wo...

Attempts to eradicate cancer are often compared to a “moonshot” — the successful effort that sent the first astronauts to the moon. But imagine if, instead of Newton’s second law of motion, which describes the relationship between an object’s mass and the amount of force need...

Through first-of-their-kind supercomputer simulations, researchers, including a Northwestern University professor, have gained new insight into one of the most mysterious phenomena in modern astronomy: the behavior of relativistic jets that shoot from black holes, extending outward across millions o...

Most sensitive web transactions are protected by public-key cryptography, a type of encryption that lets computers share information securely without first agreeing on a secret encryption key. Public-key encryption protocols are complicated, and in computer networks, they’re executed by software. Bu...

Even after the direct measurement of their gravitational waves, there are still mysteries surrounding black holes. What happens when two black holes merge, or when stars collide with a black hole? This has now been simulated by researchers from Goethe University Frankfurt and the Frankfurt Institute...

Sum of three cubes for 42 finally solved – using real life planetary computer. Hot on the heels of the ground-breaking ‘Sum-Of-Three-Cubes’ solution for the number 33, a team led by the University of Bristol and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has solved the final piece of the famous 65-...

UMass Amherst researchers develop powerful new memory-compacting system: Introducing ‘mesh,’ memory-saving plug-in to boost phone and computer performance. Applications like web browsers or smartphone apps often use a lot of memory. To address this, a research group co-led by Emery Berge...

The study, published today (September 23, 2019) in Advanced Theory and Simulations, shows that digital computers cannot reliably reproduce the behavior of ‘chaotic systems’ which are widespread. This fundamental limitation could have implications for high-performance computation (HPC) an...

PAXEL, a new type of photonic integrated circuit device that uses a novel computing architecture, shows promise for high-speed, energy-efficient computing. A group of researchers in Japan has developed a new type of processor known as PAXEL, a device that can potentially bypass Moore’s Law and...

A joint research team from Google Inc., NASA Ames Research Center, and the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has demonstrated that a quantum computer can outperform a classical computer at certain tasks, a feat known as quantum supremacy. Quantum computers use the laws of quantum ...

Modeling web traffic could aid cybersecurity, computing infrastructure design, Internet policy, and more. Using a supercomputing system, MIT researchers have developed a model that captures what web traffic looks like around the world on a given day, which can be used as a measurement tool for inter...

Drexel University researchers’ program designs materials with human-like microvasculature. The complex network of veins that keeps us cool during the heat of summer has inspired engineers to create novel thermal management systems. But replicating the circulatory system, in form or function, h...

As computers continue to infiltrate almost every aspect of modern life, their negative impact on the environment grows. According to recent estimates, the electricity required to power today’s computers releases a total of more than 1 gigatonne of carbon emissions to the atmosphere each year. ...

Circuit design offers a path to “spintronic” devices that use little electricity and generate practically no heat. MIT researchers have devised a novel circuit design that enables precise control of computing with magnetic waves — with no electricity needed. The advance takes a step toward practical...

First-of-a-kind electro-optical device provides solution to faster and more energy efficient computing memories and processors. In collaboration with researchers at the universities of Münster and Exeter, scientists have created a first-of-a-kind electro-optical device that bridges the fields of opt...

Quantum computers can potentially answer questions beyond the capabilities of classical computing – but their answers might not be reliable University of Warwick scientists have developed a protocol for quantum computers to measure how close their answers are to the correct ones Checking whether the...

Hanrahan and Catmull’s recognized for innovations paved the way for today’s 3-D animated films with ACM A.M. Turing Award. ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today named Patrick M. (Pat) Hanrahan and Edwin E. (Ed) Catmull recipients of the 2019 ACM A.M. Turing Award for fundam...

New simulations can help researchers design new drugs and vaccines to combat the coronavirus. Scientists are preparing a massive computer model of the coronavirus that they expect will give insight into how it infects in the body. They’ve taken the first steps, testing the first parts of the m...

The researchers are using a supercomputer to carry out 3D modeling and believe that the first results will be obtained in the next few weeks. The project includes fluid dynamics physicists, virologists, and biomedical engineering specialists. The researchers are using a supercomputer to carry out 3D...

An international team of computer scientists has set a new record for integer factorization, one of the most important computational problems underlying the security of nearly all public-key cryptography currently used today. Public-key cryptography is used for a number of applications including enc...

The basic units of a quantum computer can be rearranged in 2D to solve typical design and operation challenges. Quantum computing is increasingly becoming the focus of scientists in fields such as physics and chemistry, and industrialists in the pharmaceutical, airplane, and automobile industries. G...

Drugs used for curing hepatitis C might also help against COVID-19 / World Health Organization publishes paper presented by researchers from Mainz University. Several drugs approved for treating hepatitis C viral infection were identified as potential candidates against COVID-19, the disease caused ...

Scientists have tapped the immense power of the Summit supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to comb through millions of medical journal articles to identify potential vaccines, drugs, and effective measures that could suppress or stop the spread of COVID-19. A team comprising researchers f...

Several technical advances have been achieved recently in the pursuit of powerful quantum computers. Now, Computer scientists from ETH Zurich have made an important breakthrough in the field of programming languages: their quantum language is the first of its kind that is as elegant, simple, and saf...

A summer internship in Bilbao, Spain, has led to a paper in the prestigious journal Physical Review Letters for Jack Mayo, a Master’s student in Nanoscience at the University of Groningen. He has helped to create a universal model that can predict the number distribution of topological defects in no...

A European Union-backed high-performance computing platform has tested the impact of known molecules against the genomic structure of coronavirus and identified an already-registered generic medication’s efficacy. There are a significant number of studies focusing on potential treatments for COVID-1...

A quintillion calculations a second. That’s one with 18 zeros after it. It’s the speed at which an exascale supercomputer will process information. The Department of Energy (DOE) is preparing for the first exascale computer to be deployed in 2021. Two more will follow soon after. Yet quantum compute...

Australian and North American physicists display rigorous, scalable diagnostic tool. Noise is the main obstacle to building large-scale quantum computers. To tame the noise (interference or instability), scientists need to understand how it affects an entire quantum system. Until now this informatio...