Winchester College, a centuries-old boarding school in England, just pulled off that bold move: they’re going old-school.

New vocational GCSEs will be introduced from 2029 for 14-year-olds alongside existing core academic subjects in England. The new subjects could include building and construction, business management ...

The school network has been down for eleven minutes, the server room door has an electronic lock, and the technician who set it up left in July. She did leave instructions — as four locks, each ...

I first encountered Dijkstra’s hot takes nearly four years ago, not long after I joined Quanta as a staff writer covering computer science. The subject was new to me — I’d been a physics journalist, ...

It's a huge day of anticipation for teenagers who finished their secondary school education just weeks ago, as they finally collect their GCSE results. Doors across the country opened this morning as ...

It was a nervous start this morning for students at Priory School and St Edmund’s Catholic School as they queued to get their GCSE results. Many arrived early and were keen to find out how their exams ...

Zulfi Alam thinks his team doesn’t need to “prove” they engineered a new state of matter in their bid to reinvent computing. Researchers disagree. The man leading Microsoft’s multibillion-dollar ...

A quantum problem once described as impossible for classical computers has now been solved using relatively modest hardware. Researchers used tensor networks to compress the overwhelming wave function ...

Researchers cobbled together funding and time to show how quantum computing could aid in the development of drugs to help underserved populations and combat rare diseases. The Technical University of ...

Quantum computers still face limits when it comes to storing information. Researchers at ETH Zurich are now turning to mechanical vibrations rather than electromagnetic memory. Their new vibrating ...

To this day, we have yet to see a quantum computer conclusively perform a single useful task. Existing machines are simply too small and error-ridden to solve commercially relevant problems. That hasn ...

With dozens of companies, from small startups to tech giants, pursuing quantum computing, there’s a steady flow of results as they try to find a path to utility. We typically focus on new technologies ...