
Closing the last loophole for unhackable quantum security
28 October 2015
Need to share a secret? A code that's as strong as the laws of physics is within our grasp and could finally make sure your data can never leak

28 October 2015
Need to share a secret? A code that's as strong as the laws of physics is within our grasp and could finally make sure your data can never leak

28 January 2015
Meet miners, outlaws and sheriffs all striving to get ahead in the volatile new world of virtual money. Financial Times reporter Kadhim Shubber is your guide

10 September 2014
Entanglement used to be the gold standard of the quantum world's weirdness, now a new and noisy phenomenon could give us all the benefits with less of the fuss

31 July 2013
Reality, relativity, causality or free will? Take quantum theory at face value and at least one of them is an illusion – but which, asks Michael Brooks

3 July 2013
Processing data in quantum states offers the prospect of peerlessly powerful, economical and secure number crunching. The challenge is to make it a reality

3 April 2013
The problem that Stephen Hawking spotted around black holes has made a fiery return. Anil Ananthaswamy reports on how it threatens quantum theory and gravity

25 April 2012
Your social networks know far more about you than you reveal, and as Jim Giles discovers, they might even know you better than you know yourself

19 October 2011
It promised the ultimate in security, but quantum cryptography is under attack – from cunning eavesdroppers who have worked out how to fool the system

18 May 2011
A giant of internet cryptography has devised a code that he says will take 35 years to solve – with a mystery prize sealed in lead. MacGregor Campbell reports

27 April 2011
In a battle between the star principles of the quantum story, there can be only one winner. Or can there? Anil Ananthaswamy investigates