Feb 20 2025 9 mins 9
After almost 20 years in development Microsoft’s Majorana 1 chip has been unveiled. Experts are seeing it as a leap towards quantum computing but what is that? And what does it mean?
Elsewhere, researchers at Imperial College London and Google have been testing an AI co-scientist to see how it might contribute to advanced experiments.
Dr Tiago Costa, who co-led the experimental work tells us how they challenged the tech and what they learnt from collaborating with AI.
Also in this episode:
- Microsoft unveils new quantum chip
- Apple’s iPhone 16e revealed
- NASA’s latest asteroid warning
- Placenta tissue is used to save a man’s eye
- NASA’s Curiosity rover captures shimmering rainbow clouds over Mars.
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