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In a world largely shaped by Silicon Valley tech giants, the BRICS countries—Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, now expanding to new members —are emerging as influential players in the realm of digital policy and innovation. With 40% of the world’s population and a quarter of global GDP, the BRICS nations command substantial resources, […]
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The ability to sense and manipulate the body at the level of individual cells has long been a vision for the future of medicine, as well as a staple of science fiction. When it is finally realized, this vision will have a revolutionary impact on human health. For example, consider the treatment of cancer: instead […]
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The Information Economy At Facebook’s initial public offering in 2012, Mark Zuckerberg shared a motto: “Move fast and break things.” Later abandoned by Facebook, the catchphrase prevails as a call for disruptive innovation. It’s invoked by tech executives who insist they must “break eggs to make an omelet,” and also in policy circles to condemn […]
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The General Theory of Relativity (GTR), enunciated just over a hundred years ago by Albert Einstein, remains to this day the best available description of gravitation, the feeblest out of the four fundamental interactions and, nonetheless, the one which shapes and governs the natural world at the grandest scales. Especially in recent decades, empirical evidence […]
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This year’s Nobel prize in physics was awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for `foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks´(press release of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, October 8, 2024). Machine learning algorithms with artificial neural networks excel at image analysis, locating and classifying objects in digital […]
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It is rather appropriate that our book on conjugated polymers comes out 30 years to the month since I arrived in Cambridge to start working on them for the first time. When I joined Andy Holmes’s group in April 1994 polymer, OLEDs were a new and exciting field and were still some years away from […]
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In 1924, American astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble (1889-1953) established the distance of the “Great Nebula” in Andromeda, clearly placing it outside the limits of our Milky Way. All of a sudden, the observable universe had just expanded by at least a million times. During beautiful evenings of late summer and autumn, you can observe in […]
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After a hundred years, the field of quantum mechanics still has much to cause us to ponder. Nevertheless, science has progressed, and we know more than we used to know. Among the things that have progressed are the modern understandings of past experiments in the context of quantum field theory. Some of the things we […]
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