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Google's Sycamore quantum computer

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Quantum computers may finally have their first real practical use

Methods to generate the random numbers we need for secure communications are all flawed in some way, but quantum computers that exist today could produce random numbers that can't be faked

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Software bug

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Mathematical trick lets hackers shame people into fixing software bugs

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Why maths, our best tool to describe the universe, may be fallible

Mathematics

Why maths, our best tool to describe the universe, may be fallible

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To make maths classes sizzle, inject some politics and social justice

Mathematics

To make maths classes sizzle, inject some politics and social justice

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Young girl writing multiplication equations on a blackboard

Mathematics

Humans beat DeepMind AI in creating algorithm to multiply numbers

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Mathematics

DeepMind AI finds new way to multiply numbers and speed up computers

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Oak tree canopy in The Ercall woods, Shropshire, England.

Mathematics

The number that is too big for the universe

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Physics

Researchers have worked out the rules for how some things wrinkle

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The four Fields medal winners, clockwise from top left: Maryna Viazovska, James Maynard, Hugo Duminil-Copin and June Huh

Mathematics

Fields medal 2022: Work on prime numbers and spheres wins maths prize

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Fruit display in a street market

Physics

Physicists work out exactly when a fruit display will fall down

Computer simulations reveal the precise conditions when removing an orange from a display would cause a fruit avalanche

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Humans

AI should be seen as an ally to human mathematicians, not a threat

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Physics

Infinity has long baffled mathematicians – have we now figured it out?

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Physics

Mathematician wins Abel prize for research on transforming shapes

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Physics

Mathematicians are angry that Russia may still host a major conference

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