Quanta Computer Science Stories

• For Algorithms, a Little Memory Outweighs a Lot of Time (5/21/2025)
• How Can AI ID a Cat? An Illustrated Guide. (4/30/2025)
• Why Language Models Are So Hard To Understand (4/30/2025)
• How a Problem About Pigeons Powers Complexity Theory (4/4/2025)
• Catalytic Computing Taps the Full Power of a Full Hard Drive (2/18/2025)
• Can AI Models Show Us How People Learn? Impossible Languages Point a Way. (1/13/2025)
• Why Computer Scientists Consult Oracles (1/3/2025)
• Quantum Computers Cross Critical Error Threshold (12/9/2024)
• Computer Scientists Establish the Best Way to Traverse a Graph (10/25/2024)
• Computer Scientists Combine Two ‘Beautiful’ Proof Methods (10/4/2024)
• Computer Scientists Prove That Heat Destroys Quantum Entanglement (8/28/2024)
• With Fifth Busy Beaver, Researchers Approach Computation’s Limits (7/2/2024)
• Cryptographers Discover a New Foundation for Quantum Secrecy (6/3/2024)
• Cryptography Tricks Make a Hard Problem a Little Easier (4/18/2024)
• The Researcher Who Explores Computation by Conjuring New Worlds (3/27/2024)
• How Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Helps Neural Networks Compute (3/21/2024)
• Never-Repeating Tiles Can Safeguard Quantum Information (2/23/2024)
• ‘Magical’ Error Correction Scheme Proved Inherently Inefficient (1/9/2024)
• The ‘Accidental Activist’ Who Changed the Face of Mathematics (1/3/2024)
• An Easy-Sounding Problem Yields Numbers Too Big for Our Universe (12/4/2023)
• Thirty Years Later, a Speed Boost for Quantum Factoring (10/17/2023)
• Tiny Language Models Come of Age (10/5/2023)
• Alan Turing and the Power of Negative Thinking (9/5/2023)
• Complexity Theory’s 50-Year Journey to the Limits of Knowledge (8/17/2023)
• To Move Fast, Quantum Maze Solvers Must Forget the Past (7/20/2023)
• How Randomness Improves Algorithms (4/3/2023)
• Bob Metcalfe, Ethernet Pioneer, Wins Turing Award (3/22/2023)
• In Neural Networks, Unbreakable Locks Can Hide Invisible Doors (3/2/2023)
• The Computer Scientist Who Finds Life Lessons in Games (1/25/2023)
• Finally, a Fast Algorithm for Shortest Paths on Negative Graphs (1/18/2023)
• New Algorithm Closes Quantum Supremacy Window (1/9/2023)
• AI Reveals New Possibilities in Matrix Multiplication (11/23/2022)

Freelance Stories

• Chaos Researchers Can Now Predict Perilous Points of No Return (Quanta Magazine, 9/15/2022)
• Peering Into Mirror Nuclei, Physicists See Unexpected Pairings (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab News, 8/31/2022)
• Versatile neutral atoms emerge as an intriguing quantum computing platform (Physics Today, 8/24/2022)
• Wheel Made of ‘Odd Matter’ Spontaneously Rolls Uphill (Quanta Magazine, 6/15/2022)
• Canadian Telescope Delivers Deepest-Ever Radio View of Cosmic Web (Scientific American, 5/4/2022)
• Physicists Pin Down How Quantum Uncertainty Sharpens Measurements (Quanta Magazine, 5/3/2022)
• Four Years On, New Experiment Sees No Sign of ‘Cosmic Dawn’ (Quanta Magazine, 2/28/2022)
• How the Physics of Resonance Shapes Reality (Quanta Magazine, 1/26/2022)
• How Bell’s Theorem Proved ‘Spooky Action at a Distance’ Is Real (Quanta Magazine, 7/20/2021)
• Physicists measure the gravitational force between the smallest masses yet (Scientific American, 3/10/2021)
• The search for dark matter gets a speed boost from quantum technology (The Conversation, 2/10/2021)

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