New Infrared Contacts Let You See in the Dark

New Contacts Let You See Infrared Light—Even with Your Eyes Closed Straight out of science fiction, these contact lenses convert infrared light into visible light that humans can see By Elizabeth Gibney & Nature magazine People who tested a new type of designer contact lens could see flashing infrared signals from a light source. Humans…

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Breaking encryption with a quantum computer just got 20 times easier

Quantum computers have long been a potential threat to encryption sakkmesterke/Shutterstock Quantum computers could crack a common data encryption technique once they have a million qubits, or quantum bits. While this is still well beyond the capabilities of existing quantum computers, this new estimate is 20 times lower than previously thought, suggesting the day encryption…

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