One paper finds that attacking the bitcoin blockchain through quantum mining would demand the energy output of a star.

Bitcoin’s creator has hidden behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto for 17 years. But a trail of clues buried deep in crypto ...

Working in secret for more than two years, a group of mathematicians has set out to resolve of the longest and most bitter ...

A British computer scientist has been named as the possible inventor of Bitcoin. Adam Back, a 55-year-old programmer born in ...

Researchers at Georgia Tech are using math, science, and artificial intelligence to better understand how people think, move, ...

From AT&T to NASA, women working as computers performed the calculations that made modern science possible. In the early ...

It took over a decade of checking and rechecking before his fellow mathematicians were happy that Dr Hales’s calculations ...

New investigation sheds light on identity of cryptocurrency’s shadowy founder ...

A hacker has allegedly stolen a massive trove of sensitive data – including highly classified defense documents and missile ...

Built around the beginning of the 1st century BCE, the Antikythera Mechanism is the oldest known analog computer in human history, and there’s an enduring mystery surrounding what it was used for. In ...