Scientists want to unleash a Bluetooth-powered ‘virtual virus’ to study COVID-19 This helps our real-time understanding of the pandemic What about COVIDSafe? Last year the Australian government released the COVIDSafe contact-tracing app. It was backed by an extensive government-funded media campaign andinitially adopted by millionsof users. COVIDSafeworks byusing Bluetooth signals to record digital “handshakes” between the smartphone of a user and nearby contacts who also have the app. It stores this information in a form that can be retrospectively accessed if the device’s owner tests positive....

Did you know Neural istaking the stage on Sept 30 and Oct 1? Together with an amazing line-up of experts, we will explore the future of AI during TNW Conference 2021.Secure your ticket now! Scientists from Samsung and Harvard University have unveiled a new approach to building smarter computer chips: “copying and pasting” the brainonto a memory network. They proposecopying the brain’s neuronal wiring map by using a novel nanoelectrode array to record electrical signals produced by neurons....

Exactly what happened at the beginning of the universe, 14 billion years ago, is one of the greatest mysteries in physics – there’s no simple way to probe it. That’s because,in its early stages, the universe was filled with a dense plasma – a gas made out of charged particles including electrons and protons (particles that comprise the atomic nucleus alongside neutrons). Photons (particles of light) were trapped in the mix, bouncing off the other particles furiously, with no way to escape....

Outer space is so often called a “cold void” that it’s easy to forget there’s weather up there too. You won’t see any thunderstorms or tornadoes in space, but our sun’s been cycling through various “seasons” for millions of years and scientists think they’ve figured out how to predict “extreme” weather events in our neck of the universe. A team of researchers from the University of Reading todaypublished researchindicating the window for good weather might be closing for NASA’s plan to send a crewed spacecraft to the Moon in 2024....

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