By Matthew Sparkes Google’s Sycamore quantum processor set a record in 2019 that has since been beaten Peter Kneffel/dpa/Alamy Live News A quantum computer made by researchers in China has solved a calculation in 4.2 hours that would take a classical computer thousands of years. This demonstration of what the researchers call “quantum computational advantage” […]
Maths is woven into Moby-Dick, about the hunt for an elusive whale CPA Media Pte Ltd/Alamy Once Upon a PrimeSarah HartHarperCollins (UK, out 13 April) and Macmillan (US, out 11 April) DID you know that cycloids, the curves traced by a point on a circle as it rolls along a straight line, appear in Moby-Dick? Or […]
The movement to give trees, rivers and ecosystems the legal right to exist, thrive and regenerate has been bubbling under for decades, but it has just scored a very welcome win, says Graham Lawton Environment | Columnist 8 February 2023 By Graham Lawton Shutterstock/Andrew Mayovskyy I AM writing this from New York City, where New […]