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We could solve the biggest problem in maths in the next decade

10 April 2019

Whoever solves the long-standing P versus NP maths problem will win $1 million. Now a poll of computer scientists suggests the solution may be found sooner than expected

Clever maths will stop hackers spying on the quantum internet

15 January 2018

Quantum communications are theoretically secure, but keeping a complex quantum network unhackable in practice is more difficult than expected

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We could solve the biggest problem in maths in the next decade

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