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As initial data arrives from countries with high vaccination rates, how will the covid-19 vaccines affect the need for l... Read more

An efficient, low-cost way to detect explosives, and our US technology editor analyses Facebook’s future after an interv... Read more

Social media platforms face one of the most testing weeks in their history as they try to filter the real election news ... Read more

An apparent spike in a rare childhood illness, Kawasaki disease, suggests the coronavirus may manifest very differently ... Read more

Nokia attracts bids for its HERE mapping service and tests of a few brave mice suggest space travel could be terrible fo... Read more

Apple clashes with the FBI over accessing iPhone data and scientists finally prove why we keep having sex Hosted on Acas... Read more

The end of bitcoin’s civil war and a look at new technology that can be used to see round corners Hosted on Acast. See a... Read more

If Google does reintroduce its search engine to China what will it have to omit? And how future helicopters will fly in ... Read more

As covid-19 continues to devastate the world and scientists race to develop therapeutics and vaccines, Alok Jha investig... Read more

Oxford University is ahead in the race to develop a covid-19 vaccine that could halt the pandemic. Yet lead researcher, ... Read more

In our second holiday special, our hosts look back from 2115. Pluto’s portraits may be humdrum by then, but AI, gene edi... Read more

Kenneth Cukier takes a look at the future of genetic engineering and what it means to be human. He speaks to leading sci... Read more

This week we look at how selectively bred coral-dwelling algae might survive warmer waters and at how bacteria bend ligh... Read more

A charity in America rallies transplant-organ preservation scientists, and researchers in Hong Kong think they've found ... Read more

What does the European Commission's record fine of Google mean for the future of its Android operating system? And how a... Read more

As governments consider loosening lockdowns, troubling evidence suggests that the virus behind covid-19 lingers in the a... Read more

Google has teamed up with US-healthcare provider Ascension to access patient data without them being notified. What are ... Read more

This week: After five years of travel, the Juno spacecraft finally nears Jupiter. Our science correspondent, Tim Cross s... Read more

Why stock traders will soon need atomic clocks and Dupont finally tries to crack cellulosic biofuel Hosted on Acast. See... Read more

Are e-cigarettes the answer to giving up tobacco smoking? And SpaceX revives its plans to send tourists around the moon.... Read more