Fields medalist Terence Tao is part of Team ALPHA, which aims to develop artificial intelligence tools to transform how ...

Years before emails, internet banking, cloud servers and cryptocurrency wallets, two scientists devised a way to keep secrets perfectly safe and indecipherable to eavesdropping outsiders. Their 1984 ...

Many professors spend years studying their chosen discipline within a formal academic setting in order to prepare for the challenge of educating others. Gloria Townsend took a less conventional path.

A few weeks ago I was listening to one of my favorite radio shows, BBC Radio 4's In Our Time. It's about as adult-contemporary as a podcast gets: a roundtable of British academics talking about one ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...

The Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Natural Sciences, HCMC (VNU-HCM) has long been regarded ...

Computer scientist Gilles Brassard (left) and physicist Charles Bennett received the A.M. Turing Award on Wednesday for their groundbreaking work on quantum key cryptography. - Getty Images/AP Years ...