“Hey Siri, can you speak Yorùbá?” How multilingual can a translation machine be? David Ifeoluwa Adelani from DeepMind shares new techniques to support low-resource languages, their heritage and prospects for promoting cultural diversity. By Teresa Su. UCL Science Magazine • Technology
Big Data, Small Scale: Will Nanotechnology Shift the Computing Paradigm? Information overload? In the age of Big Data, researchers look to the nanoscale to handle it all. By Miranda Hitchens. UCL Science Magazine • Technology
COVID-19 Sparks Research Into Modelling Future Pandemics COVID-19 brought instability, shock and grief to all. To some, it provoked questions about its predictability. Can artificial intelligence really forecast pandemics? If so, what does this mean for the future of prevention methods? By Teresa Su. UCL Science Magazine • Technology
Quantum Teleportation beyond Neighbouring Nodes: A Step Closer to a New Internet What is quantum teleportation, really? Non-neighbouring nodes, qubit channelling and complex quantum networks. True, but invariably non-Layman. Cue Alice, Bob and Charlie, who might just help us wrap our heads around it. By Teresa Su. UCL Science Magazine • Computer Science
Heating and Cooling our Homes: As Simple as Black and White? Quan Zhang and his team at Nankai University have developed a seemingly obvious, yet elegant thermoregulator that unravels the path to a sustainable future. By Melike Temizturk. UCL Science Magazine • Chemistry
