Since 2014, over two dozen Massachusetts colleges closed due to financial difficulties, leaving large tracts of land for possible development, including much-needed housing. This is the first of three ...

Microsoft’s new “topological qubit” is not based on a solid, liquid or gas. It is another phase of matter that many experts ...

Microsoft Corp. announced its first quantum computing chip, a major step in the company’s effort to produce devices that ...

Quasiparticles are collections of particles (and, in some cases, field lines) that can be described mathematically as if they ...

The breakthrough with Majorana 1 comes after a nearly 20-year quest to harness a new state of matter, which Microsoft says it ...

Microsoft today introduced Majorana 1, the world’s first quantum chip powered by a new Topological Core architecture that it expects will realize quantum computers capable of solving meaningful, ...

Microsoft has long been working on an alternative that could cut down on the overhead by using components that are far more ...

The tech giant aims to make ‘topological’ quantum computers that will reach useful scales faster than competing technologies.

By integrating topoconductors and Majorana particles, Microsoft has mapped out a viable route to a million-qubit quantum chip ...

Microsoft scientists have created a quantum processor that taps into a rare state of matter that was first theorized in the ...

Microsoft's new chip creates a path to "solving some of the world’s most difficult problems," according to the tech giant.