The ball rolls across the floor because it was kicked, just as Earth orbits the sun because it is tugged by gravity. The connection between cause and effect is fundamental to how we understand the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. For Niccolo de Masi, artificial intelligence is old news. The quick-talking, bespectacled 45-year-old chief ...

For decades, quantum computing has been heralded as a technology of the future, promising to solve problems far beyond the reach of supercomputers. But its practical use has remained elusive. That’s ...

A vital ingredient for making quantum computers truly useful just might be conventional computers. That was the message from a gathering of researchers this month, which explained that classical ...

This level of control could help tackle one of quantum computing's biggest engineering challenges: building quantum compatibility directly into existing technologies. "Integration is a key step in ...