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24th February 2020
Artificial intelligence creates new antibiotic
Using a machine-learning algorithm, researchers have identified a powerful new antibiotic compound. It can kill some of the world's most problematic disease-causing bacteria – including strains that are resistant to all existing antibiotics.
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23rd February 2020
Computing in the 2020s
In this video, computer expert Christopher Barnatt gives us his predictions for the next decade – including the rise of AI and attentive computing, shrinking desktop PCs, mainstream NPUs, and Peak Smartphone.
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20th February 2020
Major expansion of SETI observations
The SETI Institute and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) have announced a collaboration to bring a state-of-the-art search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) instrument to the Very Large Array (VLA) for the first time.
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18th February 2020
Radiation shielding made 30% lighter
Scientists have demonstrated a new technique for shielding electronics in military and space exploration technology from ionising radiation. The new approach allows cheaper, more effective, lightweight materials.
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17th February 2020
AI-developed drug could treat OCD
A new drug created with artificial intelligence (AI) to treat patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) will be entering human clinical trials for the first time.
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16th February 2020
12% budget increase for NASA
This week, the White House unveiled its NASA budget proposal for 2021, which requests $25.2 billion in funding, a 12% increase from the previous year.
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12th February 2020
A bridge linking Scotland and Northern Ireland?
The UK government is studying the feasibility of a Scotland-Northern Ireland bridge. If built, the project would be the most significant of its kind in the British Isles since the early 1990s, when the Channel Tunnel linked England and France.
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2nd February 2020
"The Turning Point", by Steve Cutts
Steve Cutts is a freelance animator and illustrator based in London. His latest video, 'The Turning Point', explores the destruction of the environment, climate change and species extinction from a different perspective.
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