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On April 1, 2025, the Taiwanese manufacturer TSMC introduced the world’s most advanced microchip: the 2-nanometre (2nm) chip. Mass production is expected for…
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On Thursday, 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut down…
In 1948, the founder of information theory, Claude Shannon, proposed modelling language in terms of the probability of the next word…
In the Netflix series Adolescence, we have no idea why Jamie Miller (Owen Cooper) is arrested at the beginning of the…
Social media has recently been flooded with images that looked like they belonged in a Studio Ghibli film. Selfies, family photos…
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has detected the largest organic (carbon-containing) molecules ever found on the red planet. The discovery is one…
Barnard’s Star is a small, dim star, of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one…