The discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) 1,2 marks the beginning of a new era in particle physics. Experimental particle physicists at the LHC are measuring the properties ...

A team has shown that a quantum circuit can learn to sift through reams of data from atom-smashing experiments in search of a new particle. Their proof-of-principle study — performed using a machine ...

Machine learning has returned with a vengeance. I still remember the dark days of the late '80s and '90s, when it was pretty clear that the current generation of machine-learning algorithms didn't ...

A rudimentary quantum computer has rediscovered the Higgs boson. Sort of. Physicists have been working hard to develop machines that can use quantum mechanical tricks to speed up computation. But they ...