Category: Technology

The Science and Technology Facilities Council’s (STFC) ISIS Neutron and Muon Source (ISIS) and the National Research Council of Italy, or Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), have a long-standing and successful partnership. In 2024, the two organisations celebrated 40 years of collaboration through events at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK and in Rome. […]

Following the breakthrough launch of DeepSeek’s R1 model, which has shaken the AI landscape with its low-cost, efficient approach, Chinese tech giants have ramped up their orders for Nvidia’s AI chips. According to Reuters, companies like Tencent, Alibaba, and ByteDance have significantly increased their demand for Nvidia’s H20 chips, which remain unaffected by the US […]

Apple has announced a bold $500 billion investment plan over the next four years, signaling a major push for innovation and U.S.-based manufacturing. The investment will include the construction of a large artificial intelligence (AI) server factory in Texas and the creation of 20,000 research and development jobs nationwide. In collaboration with Foxconn, Apple plans […]

If you’re a parent you’ve probably tried, at some point, to navigate the supermarket with a trolley, and at least one child in tow. But our new study suggests there was an ancient equivalent, dating to 22,000 years ago. This handcart, without wheels, was used before wheeled vehicles were invented around 5,000 years ago in […]

Using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), the team, which includes UK scientists, has uncovered the largest ever collection of dwarf galaxies hosting active black holes. The study also identified a record number of potential intermediate-mass black holes, remnants of the first black holes formed in the early Universe. UK contributions Mounted in a telescope […]

In December 2024, astronomers in Chile spotted a new asteroid streaking through the sky, which they named 2024 YR4. What’s significant about this 100m-wide space rock is that it has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2023. Since its discovery, the asteroid’s probability of an impact with our planet has gone all over the […]

Intel has raised concerns about the future of AI chipmaking in Ireland, urging the government to introduce a more competitive incentive program to attract and retain semiconductor manufacturers. A letter obtained by the Sunday Times, written by Intel’s Government Affairs leader Leonard Hobbs, was sent to former Minister for Public Expenditure Paschal Donohue, now Minister […]

Early red-teaming tests have exposed significant security vulnerabilities in DeepSeek’s R1 AI model. According to a report by Laura Caroli for the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the R1 model is 11 times more likely to produce harmful content and 4.5 times more likely to generate insecure code compared to OpenAI’s o1 model. […]

Italy is embarking on an ambitious project to develop its own low-orbit satellite system, aiming to enhance national communication security and reduce reliance on foreign providers like Starlink. This move is part of a broader strategy to bolster Italy’s space capabilities and assert European sovereignty over critical infrastructure. The Italian government plans to build a […]

Visibility has always been important in people’s decisions about where to live and how to arrange their spaces. People make connections with what they can see. Being able to see prominent landmarks, such as certain mountain peaks, rivers or ancestral sites, could help reinforce a community’s connection to its cultural and spiritual landscape. Some people […]