Quantum computing at Manchester: from Ferranti to qubits
In February 1951, a machine the size of a room arrived at the University of Manchester. The Ferranti…
A Giant Scorpion the Size of a Coffee Table Is Forcing Scientists To Rethink Evolution
Life reconstruction of Praearcturus gigas. Credit: Franz Anthony Praearcturus gigas was a meter-long Devonian scorpion whose size may…
Researchers develop automatic tool to prevent hip dislocation in children with Cerebral Palsy
Researchers from the Universities of Manchester and Liverpool, together with Manchester Imaging Ltd, (a local company that specialises…
Greener computing in ‘big science’ is possible… if we change our data processing approach
One tool, ‘Baler’, works with an autoencoder – a type of neural network trained to decrease the number…