Covid vaccine: First 'milestone' vaccine offers 90% protection
Covid vaccine: First 'milestone' vaccine offers 90% protection The first effective coronavirus vaccine can prevent more than 90% of people from getting Covid-19, a preliminary analysis shows.
Tsundoku: The art of buying books and never reading them
Do you have a habit of picking up books that you never quite get around to reading? If this sounds like you, you might be unwittingly engaging in tsundoku - a Japanese term used to describe a person who owns a lot of unread literature. This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You ma
Physicist Stephen Hawking dies aged 76 - BBC News
World renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76. He died peacefully at his home in Cambridge in the early hours of Wednesday, his family said. The British scientist was famed for his work with black holes and relativity, and wrote several popular science books including A Brief History of Time.
Dyson to make electric cars from 2020
Dyson, the engineering company best known for its vacuum cleaners and fans, plans to spend £2bn developing a "radical" electric car.
What a 16,000mph airliner might look like
Shrinking a flight from London to New Zealand to little under 30 minutes might bend the laws of physics. Jack Stewart investigates an ultra-fast airliner concept. In geography, an antipode of a place on Earth is the point on the far side of the planet, that can be connected to it with a straight line running through the centre. That’s a complicated way of saying that it is as far away as possible.
Immunotherapy cancer drug hailed as 'game changer'
An immunotherapy drug has been described as a potential "game-changer" in promising results presented at the European Society for Medical Oncology congress. In a study of head and neck cancer, more patients taking nivolumab survived for longer compared with those who were treated with chemotherapy. In another study, combining nivolumab with another drug shrank tumours in advanced kidney cancer pat
The bed which could rock you to sleep
A bed which will rock you to sleep and claims to also improve the quality of your slumbers is being developed by the Sensory-Motor Systems Lab, external at ETH Zurich. The Somnomat uses specially designed motors which produce smooth movements without making too much noise. BBC Click's Spencer Kelly reports. More at BBC.com/Click and @BBCClick, external.
New alloy 'four times harder than titanium'
A super-hard metal has been made in the laboratory by melting together titanium and gold. The alloy is the hardest known metallic substance compatible with living tissues, say US physicists. The material is four times harder than pure titanium and has applications in making longer-lasting medical implants, they say. Conventional knee and hip implants have to be replaced after about 10 years due to
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