Raspberry Pi, the £30 computer, celebrates its fourth birthday
A Raspberry Pi is a credit card-sized circuit board with a few ports and attachments, and does not look anything like the computers we use on a daily basis. So…
New study reveals the science behind Spiderman’s superpowers
Image: Dorian Kartalovski Different animals are associated with distinct abilities that other species do not possess. Birds can fly and humans cannot because their body types have developed to fill…
A solution to the black hole information paradox
It is a paradox that has long troubled scientists. A black hole is a region of spacetime where the effects of gravity are so powerful that supposedly nothing, including light…
Alan Turing Institute opens to promote data science
Data science is a tricky field to define. The term was coined over 30 years ago, and incorporates many different disciplines including mathematics, statistics and artificial intelligence. The idea is…