QKD uses photons — the smallest units of light — to securely transmit encryption keys. Any attempt to intercept them disturbs ...

Tipping points in our climate predictions are both wildly dramatic and wildly uncertain. Can mathematicians make them useful?

This is where we design the systems, the "making ciphers" part. It’s about creating methods to scramble information so it’s ...

Two mathematicians have proved that a straightforward question — how hard is it to untie a knot? — has a complicated answer.

The Artificial Intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT, appeared to improvise ideas and make mistakes like a student in a study that ...

Combining physical and virtual manipulatives gives students the ability to concretely model things in the real world.

Gauging the mass of a black hole is tricky, but astronomers have devised multiple methods to measure the heft of these galactic gluttons ...

Robust skill-building and reinforcement of key mathematical concepts lie beneath the excitement of these games.

A new initiative pieced together by the National Quilt Museum, along with professors at Murray State University, is using the ...

High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) is a widely used and well-established technique, routinely employed by thousands of analytical scientists worldwide. Nonetheless, certain ...