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Matthew Sparkes

Matthew Sparkes

Technology Reporter at New Scientist

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  • English
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  • Computers & Technology
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Recent Articles

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Testing the Amazon's ability to soak up increasing carbon emissions

Deep in the Amazon rainforest, an unusual experiment is deliberately pumping out greenhouse gas to measure how flora and fauna react to the levels we expect to reach in the future. Photographer Lalo de Almeida captures the vast machinery of the AmazonFACE project
20 days ago
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Why is AI making computers and games consoles more expensive?

The AI industry consumes vast amounts of energy, fresh water and investor cash. Now it also needs memory chips - the same ones used in laptops, smartphones and games consoles
21 days ago
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Plastic can be programmed to have a lifespan of days, months or years

Inspired by natural polymers like DNA, chemists have devised a way to engineer plastic so it breaks down when it is no longer needed, rather than polluting the environment
27 days ago
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Mosquito proboscis repurposed as a fine nozzle for 3D printing

When engineers struggled to make 3D printer nozzles narrow enough for their needs, they turned to nature and found the proboscis of a female mosquito had exactly the properties they needed
about 1 month ago
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Huge cloud of plasma belched out by star 130 light years away

A coronal mass ejection from a distant star has been confirmed for the first time, raising questions about how such events could impact exoplanet habitability
about 1 month ago
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Advanced quantum network could be a prototype for the quantum internet

Building a working quantum internet would require overcoming a host of technical challenges, but researchers who have built one of the most advanced quantum networks to date say they think it is possible
about 2 months ago
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How preppers plan to save us if the whole internet collapses

Recent outages have revealed how vulnerable the internet is, but there seems to be no official plan in the event of a catastrophic failure. Meet the team of hackers who are ready to jump into action
about 2 months ago
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The US is unlikely to test nuclear weapons, despite what Trump says

President Donald Trump appears to have ordered a return to nuclear testing after decades of uneasy but effective treaties banning the practice – but will it actually happen?
about 2 months ago
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Has life today been enshittified? Cory Doctorow's new book explores

Enshittification is a term coined by Cory Doctorow in 2022. In his new book, Doctorow lays out how tech companies have made our lives progressively worse, finds Matthew Sparkes
about 2 months ago
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Analogue computers could train AI 1000 times faster and cut energy use

Computers built with analogue circuits promise huge speed and efficiency gains over ordinary computers, but normally at the cost of accuracy. Now, an analogue computer designed to carry out calculations that are key to AI training could fix that
about 2 months ago
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See the beauty of space, captured by the astronauts who experienced it

A new book and documentary from James Bluemel tells the story of the space race so far in photographs, a mix of images from astronauts' own collections and NASA archives
2 months ago