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Matthew Sparkes

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Matthew Sparkes is a science and technology reporter who first wrote for New Scientist in 2007. He has previously reported for The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph and has a BSc and MSc in computer science from the University of East Anglia.

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Encryption upgrade in 2024 will keep data safe from quantum computers

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The Jülich Supercomputing Centre in Germany where the exascale supercomputer JUPITER will be hosted

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Europe plans to build the world’s fastest supercomputer in 2024

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Mathematicians found a guaranteed way to win the lottery in 2023

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Decades-old mathematical mystery about the Game of Life finally solved

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Vibrating pill may help with obesity by making your stomach feel full

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NASA sends cat video 31 million kilometres through space

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AI trained on millions of life stories can predict risk of early death

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This carbon nitride is nearly as hard as diamond

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Material made of carbon and nitrogen is nearly as hard as diamond

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DeepMind AI with built-in fact-checker makes mathematical discoveries

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Robotic third arm controlled by breathing is surprisingly easy to use

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David Smith, Joseph Myers, Chaim Goodman-Strauss and Craig S. Kaplan prove that a polykite that we call "the hat" is an aperiodic monotile, AKA an einstein https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/hat/

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Mathematicians discovered the ultimate bathroom tile in 2023

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NEW DELHI, INDIA - AUGUST 23: People celebrates after successful landing of Chandrayaan 3 on Moon at Nehru Planetarium on August 23, 2023 in New Delhi, India. The Chandrayaan-3 lander module has successfully touched down on the Moon's south pole, making India the first nation in the world to achieve this feat. India is also the fourth nation, after the United States, China and Russia to have landed on the Moon. (Photo by Sanchit Khanna/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

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India made history with 2023's low-budget Chandrayaan-3 moon landing

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