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ISSUE 133
The magazine that feeds minds!
I
‘moldenoughtorememberthe
IBMpersonalcomputermydad
usedforhiswork,equipped
witha processorcapableofa
whopping4.77millioncalculations
persecond.Soundslikea lot,
doesn’tit?Today’spersonalcomputershavemulti-core
gigahertzprocessorsover1,000timesfasterthanthat
earlycomputersystem,andmodernsupercomputers
aremillionsoftimesfasterthan
today’sPCsagain.Tothinkthat
quantumcomputershavethe
potentialtosolvecurrently
impossibleproblemsin
medicine,AIandmore,and
outperformsupercomputers
byseveralordersof
magnitude,isincredible.Read
moreonpage22.
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Nikole
ProductionEditor
Explorethespace
odditiesofourSolar
System– methane
lakes,gushing
geysersandMartian
mountainscanbe
foundonpage70.
Scott
StaffWriter
Meettheanimals
dressedinarmour
tofightofffoes
and,insomecases,
turnpredatorsinto
pincushionson
page42.
Baljeet
ResearchEditor
Allaboardthe
floatinglabratory
thatis usingocean
sedimentstolook
backin timeand
unlockthehistoryof
Earthonpage52.
Quantum computers, page 22
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Ailsa
Staff Writer
From blood-sucking
leeches to
pain-killing cocaine,
check out the crazy
medicines used in
Victorian healthcare
on page 66.
Duncan
Senior Art Editor
What will the
weapons of the
future look like? Turn
to page 36 for a
glimpse into the next
developments in
human warfare.