European airlines have been lobbying against EU climate plans
9 June 2021
Several European airlines have been lobbying to challenge European Union climate policies, a UK-based think tank has found
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Removing junk food from our diets will be no easy task
9 June 2021
We know highly processed foods are bad for us, yet they make up 60 per cent of people's diets in some Western countries – fortunately there are ways we can slash our dependence
Amazon buying MGM is just continuing a 40,000-year-old media tradition
9 June 2021
Amazon has acquired the movie studio MGM. The move by the streaming giant is just following an ancient pattern, writes Annalee Newitz
Should we start testing drugs and vaccines in people who are pregnant?
9 June 2021
New drugs are rarely tested in pregnant people, leaving harmful gaps in our medical knowledge, but the tide of opinion on including them in trials is starting to change
US Army scientists create a formula for the perfect walking robot
9 June 2021
The current generation of walking robots are not particularly energy efficient, according to an analysis which also shows how much more efficient they could be
Celebrities call on G7 leaders to donate covid-19 vaccines immediately
8 June 2021
Ahead of the G7 summit in the UK this week, celebrities including Billie Eilish and Claudia Schiffer are urging rich nations not to wait until they have vaccinated their populations before donating vaccines elsewhere
Devi Sridhar interview: Don't blame the scientists for lockdown
8 June 2021
Devi Sridhar has been a constant voice in the ear of governments throughout the pandemic. She tells Adam Vaughan why scientists aren’t to blame for lockdowns and why we must not become complacent about the virus's toll
Two giant icy balls in space could change our understanding of stars
8 June 2021
A pair of mysterious, gigantic balls of frozen gas in the Milky Way have left astronomers puzzled, but they could be a sign we don’t fully understand how stars form
Cyborg cockroach with camera ‘backpack’ can be steered remotely
8 June 2021
A Madagascar hissing cockroach fitted with a “backpack” computer and infrared camera could help search-and-rescue teams locate bodies in the aftermath of an earthquake
Google has mapped a piece of human brain in the most detail ever
7 June 2021
A team including researchers at Google took a cubic millimetre of a woman's brain, sliced it incredibly thin and scanned it to create the most detailed map yet of the connections within our brain
