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Rivals question Google’s quantum supremacy claim
Added: 28 Oct 2019
Google researchers claimed quantum supremacy last week, shortly followed by rebuke from its rivals.
AI university to open in UAE next year
Added: 16 Oct 2019
The world’s first graduate level research university dedicated to AI will welcome its first intake …
Wellcome Trust on the hunt for best public engagement
Added: 16 Oct 2019
The Wellcome Trust has launched an initiative to find the best examples of public engagement projec…
ESA opens calls for ISS lab upgrade
Added: 14 Oct 2019
The European Space Agency is looking for industry help to upgrade the Columbus laboratory aboard th…
Saturn surpasses Jupiter as 'moon king'
Added: 10 Oct 2019
Another 20 moons have been discovered orbiting Saturn, each around five kilometres, or three miles,…
Nobel physics prize awarded for cosmology and exoplanet discovery
Added: 8 Oct 2019
The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to James Peebles for theoretical discoveries in physica…
Andromeda’s galaxy-gobbling past
Added: 4 Oct 2019
Our neighbouring galaxy Andromeda has engulfed several smaller galaxies, likely within the last few…
US Army project sets quantum entanglement record
Added: 30 Sep 2019
A new record has been set for the transfer of quantum entanglement between matter and light, which …
Nanolaser functions inside living human tissue
Added: 26 Sep 2019
A US team has developed a nanolaser that can operate in confined spaces such as quantum circuits, m…
European Bioinformatics Institute adds local data storage
Added: 19 Sep 2019
The European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) has signed a contract with colocation datacentre p…
PM reintroduces graduate visa
Added: 18 Sep 2019
A new work visa introduced by Boris Johnson’s government will allow international science students …
New record for largest neutron star
Added: 17 Sep 2019
Astronomers at the NANOGrav Physics Frontiers Center have observed the biggest neutron star ever re…
Simple, beautiful, classic: MIT creates blackest black material
Added: 16 Sep 2019
Engineers have claimed a new record for the blackest material ever created.
First evidence of water discovered on exoplanet
Added: 12 Sep 2019
For the first time, water vapour has been detected in the atmosphere a planet outside our solar sys…
Black hole image wins $3M Breakthrough Prize
Added: 6 Sep 2019
The team behind the first ever image of a black hole has been awarded the 2020 Breakthrough Prize i…
AI biomarker predicts heart attacks
Added: 5 Sep 2019
A new AI-powered imaging biomarker is said to predict hearts attacks at least five years before the…
International research projects get £3.6M
Added: 29 Aug 2019
Research England has divvied up £3.6 million for eight research institutions in the UK to help fund…
Hogweed turned into carbon material for electrodes
Added: 29 Aug 2019
Hogweed is being put to use to manufacture electrodes for supercapacitors.
Calcium ion used as micro engine
Added: 23 Aug 2019
Theoretical physicists have used the intrinsic angular momentum of a calcium ion to effectively tur…
2D stack provides thermal isolation in electronics
Added: 22 Aug 2019
An insulator only 10 atoms deep could significantly reduce heat emissions in electronic devices whi…
