Microsoft’s $2.5-billion purchase of “Minecraft” brought the wildly popular block-building and adventure game to new players across multiple platforms. Microsoft expanded the game beyond Xbox, added ...

Condensed-matter physics is the study of substances in their solid state. This includes the investigation of both crystalline solids in which the atoms are positioned on a repeating three-dimensional ...

Ilia Kuk and colleagues report a phase-bit computing that encodes information in phases of nonlinear topological acoustic waves. They implement Shor’s algorithm to factor 15 and 35 at room temperature ...