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Michael Grieves, who probably first formulated the concept of digital twins in 2002, stated that all information about a physical entity should be present in its cyber or digital twin with data flow from the physical entity to the digital twin, and inform…

Caustics formed from iron nanoparticles coalescing into chains aligned with the lines of the magnetic field from an adjacent magnet Many people will be familiar with an iron filings and magnet experiment often performed in high school physics classes.

In her novel, ‘The Gap of Time’, Jeanette Winterson writes that Buddha and Jesus knew that when you had so much money that you could buy anything, everything, then worldly goods were worthless.

(a) Two-dimensional random dynamics (blue line) of a pelp20 bacteriophage monitored for a period of 5 s.

Some months ago, I wrote in unflattering terms about artificial intelligence applications (AI apps) and large language models (LLMs), (see ‘Ancient models and stochastic parrots‘ on October 1st, 2025).

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What would you do if you found yourself face-to-face with a polar bear?

The final PhD student for whom I will act as lead supervisor is scheduled to finish this month.

Greenland has been in the news recently and as a consequence more people know about it than when I visited there about 45 years ago (see ‘Ice bores and what they can tell us‘ on January 12th, 2022).

I am writing this post while I am in the middle of leading a breakout activity for more than a hundred PhD students from our Centres for Doctoral Training in nuclear science and engineering, GREEN and SATURN.