28th October 2018

Future "superhumans" predicted in Stephen Hawking's final essays

In this book, Stephen Hawking leaves us with his final thoughts on the universe's biggest questions. He makes predictions on the future of humanity, including a race of "superhumans" that could emerge as people choose to upgrade themselves.

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25th October 2018

New technology to allow 100 times faster Internet

Groundbreaking new technology could allow 100 times faster Internet by harnessing twisted light beams to carry more data and process it faster.

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13th October 2018

World's fastest camera: 10 trillion frames per second

The world's fastest camera, able to film 10 trillion frames per second, has been announced by a team of researchers from the U.S. and Canada.

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21st September 2018

Nuclear pasta is hardest known substance in the universe

A team of scientists has calculated the strength of the material deep inside the crust of neutron stars and found it to be the strongest known material in the universe – 10 billion times harder to break than steel.

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14th September 2018

Fusion breakthrough: improved control of plasma

Researchers have predicted the entire set of beneficial 3-D distortions for controlling the edge localised modes (ELMs) in tokamak plasma.

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11th September 2018

Graphene enables clock rates in the terahertz range

Graphene – an ultrathin material consisting of a single layer of interlinked carbon atoms – is considered a promising candidate for the nanoelectronics of the future. In theory, it should allow clock rates up to a thousand times faster than today’s silicon-based electronics.

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30th August 2018

Higgs Boson observed decaying into bottom quarks

With help from machine learning technology, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider have observed the Higgs boson decaying into a pair of bottom quarks.

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