Cambridge headquartered ARM UK-based chip designer has told staff it must suspend business with Huawei according to an internal memo. ARM instructed employees to halt ” all active contracts, support entitlements and any pending engagements with Huawei and its subsidiaries to comply with a recent US trade clampdown, as its design contained US origin technology.…
In Bristol 170 engineers are designing the world’s most complex next generation AI computer chips the size of the postage stamp, Colossus, which boasts 1216 processors designed for artificial intelligence applications from voice recognition to self-driving cars. Colossus named after computer used by cryptographers at Bletchley Park during the second world war, was top…
“Genetics is the most important factor shaping who we are” write Robet Plomin a behavioural geneticist at King’s College London recognised globally for his research into the genetics of intelligence. “ It explains more of the psychological differences between us thane everything else put together, the most important environmental factors, such as our families and…
NASA’s Juno mission to the gas giant Jupiter has now reached halfway mark and has shown new views of cyclones at the poles. Juno performs a science gathering dive, scanning from pole to pole as it orbits the planet every 53 days. It is mapping the magnetic and gravity fields and expose Jupiter’s structure and…
A drone weighing abut 121lbs (55kg) tethered to the ground with a hose, that can wash buildings and fight fires is being developed in Latvia. The Aerones Drone company says it can clean buildings 20 times faster than human beings and fly higher than firefighter ladders can reach. With the advent of 5G mobile connectivity…
A three-minute video made by Samay, a NP~S student from Bangalore, India, won him a £195,000 ( Rs 1.8 crores) worth prize money, his science teacher £36,000 and his science school lab a grand of £100,000. Samay’s sense of unflappable curiosity make him one of the budding young scientist to make us understand how and…
Biogen has offered a glimmer of hope saying it intended to take an experimental drug into the final stages of testing following promising results from a clinical trial. Biogen’ share shot up 18 per cent at the open in New York Yesterday, adding about $10bn to its market valuation, after the US biotech company and…
Oxford BioMedica in a £738.88m deal with Axovant which specialises in treatment for neurological diseases is a subsidiary of Roivant Sciences. Oxford BioMedica, one of Britain’s oldest biotech companies, has sealed an $842.5m ( £738.88m) deal with Axovant Sciences of the US to commercialise its gene therapy for Parkinson’s disease. New of the worldwide deal…
The world’s most powerful rocket the Falcon Heavy, lifts off on an historic maiden flight, from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. US entrepreneur and The SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s mammoth vehicle billed as a risky test flight, designed to deliver a minimum payload to low-earth orbit of 64 tonnes – equivalent of putting five London…
Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has successfully launched the smallest-ever rocket to carry a satellite into orbit, a Modest SS-520 sounding rocket modified with a third stage inside its nose cone to get its payload into orbit and entered a new spaceflight record. The rocket was carrying TRICOM-IR, a three unit cubesat measuring not more…