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Tearing down the Asus ROG Ally gaming console

Members'-only content Paul Dempsey — Wed 25 Oct 2023 — updated 17 Nov 2023

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Greece uses augmented reality to take visitors back to antiquity

Mon 9 Oct 2023
The new app allows tourists who travel to Athen’s Acropolis to see what the site looked like 2,500 years ago.
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Encouraging women into engineering careers could tackle UK’s skills shortage

Tue 24 Oct 2023
According to last year’s figures from EngineeringUK, women still make up only 16.5 per cent of the engineering workforce. While that is a healthy six percentage point rise since 2010 and represents progress, many view rectifying the gender imbalance as one of the key opportunities for meeting our skills needs in the future.
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The 5-minute guide to quantum computing

Mon 23 Oct 2023
The first thing to know about quantum technologies is that a brief introduction will only scratch the surface, writes Tim Fryer. It is barely enough to introduce the layperson to the terminology, while the technology remains a mystery. But in a nutshell…
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Breaking the link between industrial pollution and antibiotic resistance

Fri 20 Oct 2023
The link between environmental pollution from industrial sources and the rapid spread of antibiotic resistance has been exposed in a new UN report. What can be done to break the cycle?
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The eccentric engineer: the law of unintended consequences

Wed 18 Oct 2023
As we stand perhaps on the cusp of an AI revolution that will change the way we work, we look back to another engineering invention that changed the world in untold ways and still affects us today.
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Interview: talking techno-panic with Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

Tue 17 Oct 2023
There’s nothing new in techno-panic, says psychologist and AI thought leader Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, But, as he outlines in “I, Human”, today could be the moment when technology really does make us look to our own humanity.
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Letters to the editor: volume 18, issue 8

Mon 16 Oct 2023
In the September 2023 issue of E+T, readers discuss mass extinction events, fusion energy, AI and more.
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Could the next pandemic be triggered by melting permafrost?

Fri 13 Oct 2023
The melting permafrost of Siberia exposed live anthrax spores in the remains of long-dead animals. What other possible triggers are there for another pandemic?
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Global quantities of e-waste are rising around five times faster than efforts to recycle e-waste, figures from the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) show.
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Taxpayer-funded 4G masts boost mobile coverage in rural Wales

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Advances in brain-computer interfaces and prosthetics could improve the quality of life for millions, but they carry risks that even touch upon eugenics.
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Decarbonisation depends on electric vehicles – and on the huge plants that churn out lithium-ion batteries.
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Nuclear power is yet to face its day of reckoning in the UK, despite revamped enthusiasm for low-carbon energy.
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Like the newfound Anglo-Scottish unity it symbolised, constructing Berwick Old Bridge was not without its teething problems, writes Jack Loughran
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