The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Say you want to send a private message, cast a secret vote, or sign a document securely. If you do any of these tasks on a computer, you ...

Climbing the staircase in Calvin Lab, home of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, feels like ascending into computer science heaven. Light streams from the gaping skylights, and groups ...

Life expectancy has climbed steadily over the past century, but few people talk seriously about eliminating death itself. Now, a teenager in Europe wants to try. At just 15, Laurent Simons of Belgium ...