Uncertainties will remain a concern under the new industrial defence plan. The prime minister’s announcement speaks of “prioritizing Canadian suppliers,” but does not define what counts as a Canadian ...

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre was curt and harsh about Jamil Jivani telling Trump-friendly American media that Canada ...

AI could soon spew out hundreds of mathematical proofs that look "right" but contain hidden flaws, or proofs so complex we ...

McGill and Queen's University researchers have built an improved version of a computer that uses light to solve extremely hard problems more quickly ...

Lance Fortnow on the current status and future outlook of solving the P-NP problem.

Only time will tell how effective this approach will be. Meanwhile, in the current situation, political parties appear to be ...

What if, no matter how strong your password was, a hacker could crack it just as easily as you can type it? In fact, what if all sorts of puzzles we thought were hard turned out to be easy?

Mathematicians are still trying to understand fundamental properties of the Fourier transform, one of their most ubiquitous and powerful tools. A new result marks an exciting advance toward that goal.

Abstract: The development of quantum annealing has stimulated interest in solving NP-hard problems, including various industrial problems, such as quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO), ...

Source: Darren Edwards What if one of the biggest unsolved problems in mathematics is not just about numbers or computers, but about observers like you and me? This isn’t a proposed solution to P vs ...

New York decides which 4-year-olds should be designated “gifted.” Many experts think that’s too young. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Tuesday. Today we’ll look at the continuing challenges that ...