The standard frequency of China's power grid is 50 Hertz, and all devices must operate in sync at this frequency. However, when the orchestra performs, there are inevitably instances of dragging or ...

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Since the 1990s, evidence has been growing that quantum computers should be able to solve a range of particularly complex ...

This story about humans and elephants was told to me by my late mother, Beta Leelawathie, in 1980. It is not a folktale.  This story really took place nearly seven decades ago, when the phrase ...

Quantum researchers have deployed a new algorithm to manage noise in qubits in real time. The method can be applied to a wide range of different qubits, even in large numbers. Noise is the "ghost in ...

If you've been noticing a distinct change in the content you're seeing on Facebook recently, you aren't alone. Several members of the IndyStar newsroom have reported seeing a disproportionate amount ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...

Abstract: The edit distance (also known as Levenshtein distance) of two strings is the minimum number of insertions, deletions, and substitutions of characters needed to transform one string into the ...