Quantum teleportation has been achieved by a number of research teams around the globe since it was first theorized in 1993, but current experimental methods require extensive resources and/or only ...

You can almost hear the indrawn breath from newsrooms around the world. Specialist science journalists have hidden themselves in the bathroom to weep quietly. The cause of such despair? Someone has ...

Mathematicians' compulsion to make things more and more complex is both a blessing and a curse. Their urge to take an idea and stretch it as far as possible can yield fascinating new insights. The ...

Putting a hole in the center of the donut--a mid-nineteenth-century invention--allows the deep-fried pastry to cook evenly, inside and out. As it turns out, the hole in the center of the donut also ...

The kicking qbits on a Fibonacci schedule to induce randomness kind of cracks me up. Also about the only section I could conceptually grasp. The comic strip in my head is the day when sentient AI ...