Gaia

The 17-year-old was born in Singapore to an English father and a Japanese mother, and currently plays for Portuguese side Valadares Gaia.

For about a century, astronomers have known that the Milky Way's stars orbit its core, and Gaia has precisely tracked their speeds and trajectories.

By applying machine learning to Gaia's asteroid catalogue and then comparing the results to their model's prediction, Zhou's team found that the location of the gap matched what their model predicted almost perfectly.

He points to Gaia X - a scheme launched in 2020 to create a European-based alternative to large, centralised cloud platforms, which has faced significant criticism and delays.

When I first began writing my book “Gaia Wakes” eight years ago, I did not anticipate the sheer rapidity of artificial intelligence's ascent.