Decades-Old Collision Data Offers Tantalizing Hint of New Particle

23 Okt 201622 Okt 2016

The Large Hadron Collider, now operating at near-peak luminosity in its second operational phase, may be the most powerful particle collider ever built and it may smash together billions of…

Neural Networks Are Alarmingly Good at Identifying Blurred Faces

26 Sep 201625 Sep 2016

In a world of ubiquitous smart-phone cameras, drones, and Google Street View cars, there’s probably never been a more important time to start protecting the identities of people unwittingly captured…

Supermaterials Offer New Means of Searching for Superlight Dark Matter

20 Sep 201619 Sep 2016

No one said detecting dark matter would be easy. We didn't even know about the stuff until a couple of decades ago, after all, despite the fact that it represents…

Quantum Computing Just Grew Way the Hell Up

4 Aug 20163 Aug 2016

On Wednesday, researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute at the University of Maryland unveiled a first-of-its-kind fully programmable and reconfigurable quantum computer. The five-qubit machine, which is described in the…

Could Dark Energy Just Be Frozen Neutrinos?

17 Jul 201616 Jul 2016

Dark energy is arguably the best mystery in astrophysics. Here we have an uneasy placeholder for almost all of the energy in the universe—energy that, as you read this, is…

Quipper Is a Language To Program the Nearing Quantum Computing Future

23 Aug 201522 Aug 2015

We like to talk about universality and portability in computer science. Alan Turing gave us his Turing Machine and, with it, the concept of Turing completeness. A complete programming language…