Matthew Sparkes is a Technology Reporter at New Scientist. He specializes in science and technology reporting, focusing on areas such as robotics, quantum computing, artificial intelligence, and mathematics, while also covering themes like climate change and sustainability. Matthew has been featured in The Conversation Australia + NZ, YOUGOV PLC, Knowledia, Government Technology, and New Scientist.
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Matthew Sparkes' articles predominantly focus on scientific and technological advancements with a national (United Kingdom) perspective. He showcases a keen interest in breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, space exploration, mathematics, and emerging technologies.
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By: Matthew Sparkes
By: Matthew Sparkes
The Ingenuity autonomous helicopter surpassed all expectations to fly dozens of missions over several years on the Red Planet, only stopping this year when an accident damaged one of its rotors
By: Matthew Sparkes
Several prototype aircraft that are intended to bring back commercial supersonic travel have been making big strides in recent years – but it is unknown how well the return of Concorde-like flights will go down with customers
By: Matthew Sparkes
Throat vibrations made by people who find it difficult to speak, such as after a stroke, can be analysed by AI and used to create sentences
Industrial waste can make rudimentary batteries. That's likely no good in electric cars etc, but could be ideal for stashing away vast surpluses of renewable power.
SpaceX's most ambitious Starship flight yet will see reused hardware, the deployment of 10 fake satellites and another attempt to catch the booster with “chopsticks”
Earthquakes that occurred near an oil extraction site in Surrey, UK, in 2018 and 2019 had been put down to coincidence, but a new analysis with an updated look at the geology of the area suggests the seismic events may indeed have been linked to drilling
By: Matthew Sparkes
ELIZA is famous as a rudimentary artificial intelligence and the first ever chatbot, but versions found online today are actually knock-offs because the original computer code was lost - until now
By: Matthew Sparkes
A man with paralysis was able to fly a virtual drone through a complex obstacle course simply by thinking about moving his fingers, with signals being interpreted by an AI model
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