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With science it is always a case of the fundamental and the applied, and this is keenly encapsulated in the battle against antimicrobial resistance. Aether features the UN’s latest drive to minimise the threat of this hideous reality and looks at some of the research ongoing that could mitigate it.
We also look at conservation efforts in areas as diverse as river mussel populations, birds and wild donkeys and zebras, as well as the reality of climate change for Arctic ocean-living species. In humanities, we feature the amazing archaeology that can be found in shipwrecks, and in technology, we look at the future hybridisation of machine learning and quantum computing through the lens of neuromorphic photonics.
Aether 3 ends with a special feature on the incredible research being made by astronomers looking up at the night sky, including the discovery of the chemical remnants of the first stars, observing tidal disruption events as black holes swallow stars and the intensely inhospitable environments where heavy elements are found high in a planet’s atmosphere.
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Featured contributors
Timothy C Beers, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Notre Dame, USA
The traces of the universe’s earliest stars may have been found after observations of a distant quasar uncovered evidence of a first-generation star that died in a ‘super-supernova’ explosion. Professor Timothy C Beers explains how you can observe things that exploded billions of years ago.
Bhavin Shastri, Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy, Queen’s University, Canada
First studied in the 1980s, neuromorphic photonics has become a major area of research over the last decade or so. Today it is thought neuromorphic photonics could play a part in the hybridisation of machine learning and quantum computing, as Prof. Bhavin Shastri highlights.
Toby Jones, Curator, Newport Medieval Ship Project, South Wales, UK
Shipwrecks, certainly those close to land, are common enough discoveries. But when one comes along that rewrites the manual on how to treat them, you know you have found something special. Which is exactly the case with the Newport Medieval Ship, as Dr Toby Jones discusses.
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Aether Publication 3. February 2023
Aether : Issue 3 : February 2023
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