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Alex Wilkins

Alex Wilkins

Trainee News Reporter at New Scientist

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  • Chemistry
  • Physics
  • Technology
  • Space Exploration

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Recent Articles

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Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton win Turing award for AI training trick

The Turing award, often considered the Nobel prize of computing, has gone to two computer scientists for their work on reinforcement learning, a key technique in training artificial intelligence models
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The solar system was once engulfed by a vast wave of gas and dust

The stars as seen from Earth would have looked dimmer 14 million years ago, as the solar system was in the middle of passing through clouds of dust and gas
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Cryptography trick could make AI algorithms more efficient

Encryption would normally be expected to slow down computation, but applying the tools of cryptography to "trick" an algorithm can actually make it work faster
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Electronic tongue could let you taste cake in virtual reality

Virtual reality could get more realistic thanks to scientists inventing an artificial tongue that can taste flavours, such as sourness and umami
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Physicists capture a strange fractal ‘butterfly’ for the first time

The electrons in a twisted piece of graphene show a strange repeating pattern first predicted in 1976, but never directly measured until now
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Thread-based computer could be knitted into clothes to monitor health

Wearable technology could go beyond smartwatches to items of clothing that monitor large parts of your body
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Intuitive Machine's lunar lander Athena set to blast off to the moon

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is about to launch a number of missions, including a private lunar lander, a lunar satellite for NASA and a prospecting probe for an asteroid-mining company
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Odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032 have fallen again

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but as astronomers make more observations about its trajectory, the odds of a collision are being refined
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New Scientist recommends 13 Ways of Looking at AI, Art & Music

The books, TV, games and more that New Scientist staff have enjoyed this week
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Microsoft wants to use generative AI tool to help make video games

Using AI to produce footage of video games with a consistent world and rules could prove useful to game designers
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Stunning image shows the closest ever Einstein ring

Albert Einstein himself thought that the eponymous Einstein ring would be impossible to observe, but the Euclid telescope has picked one up just 600 million light years from Earth