Category: Uncategorized
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Lasers shed light on lost cities (Issue 31 Preview)
LiDAR reveals that ancient Amazonian cultures created “urban” landscapes, reports Anna Flemming.
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Space Junk (Issue 31 Preview)
With growing amounts of space junk orbiting Earth, Ananya Ganapathy explains what exactly it is just how damaging it can be.
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Watch This Space: Tourism rockets from fantasy to reality (Issue 31 Preview)
Kevin Boyle investigates the possibility of space tourism to be accessible for us all in the near future and the various companies gunning to be the one to deliver these fantastical holidays.
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mRNA: The Future of Vaccination (Issue 31 Preview)
With such successful progress made in Covid-19 vaccines using mRNA, Danny Pang explores what other areas this development may be applied to and the phenomenal effect it could have on those living with autoimmune diseases.
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Renewable / Perspectives (Issue 31 Preview)
Looking at the future of green energy, Alexandra Bruncrona describes the developments still needed in field and even how the misuse of the term “renewable energy” can have big consequences.
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On your marks, Headset, Go! (Issue 31 Preview)
Emily Oliver explores how virtual reality and augmented reality could be ever more present in our lives in the future and how the technology has developed over the past 50 years.
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Breaking the symmetry (Issue 31 Preview)
No recipe currently exists for uncovering the fundamental laws of physics, but advances in a recently revitalised sub-field of machine learning may provide a glimpse into the future of scientific discovery, one in which physicists interpret rather than discover physical laws. Mika Kontiainen investigates.
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Hacking the fungal mainframe (Issue 31 Preview)
Azia Bolger explains how a wide variety of areas from “sensing skins” to construction can benefit from the incredible properties of fungi.
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When chemistry “clicks” with nature
In light of the recent Nobel prize award in chemistry, Kevin Boyle discusses an advance that could potentially change how chemistry is carried out in the future with far reaching applications. On the 5th October 2022, the revolutionary concept of click chemistry was thrown into the limelight. The 2022 Nobel prize for chemistry was shared…