Elon Musk welcomes SpaceX crew home with $50m donation to charity
Four-person crew asked for the public’s help in reaching fundraising target of $200m for the children’s charity St Jude
Escape from Extinction review – eco plea bordering on pro-zoo propaganda
Helen Mirren narrates this documentary which seeks to correct some misconceptions about zoos but ends up feeling hard to trust
Nike and Amazon among brands advertising on Covid conspiracy sites
Household names may have unwittingly helped spread fake news, investigation reveals
GSK teams with King’s College to use AI to fight cancer
Artificial intelligence will be used to develop personalised treatments while investigating role of genetics
Rules on GM farming and cars to be top of UK bonfire of EU laws
Minister reveals plans to change laws inherited from EU, with rules on medical devices also in crosshairs
Fauci review – laudatory but lenient portrait of the US vaccine czar
Anthony Fauci’s firmness in the face of Trump’s anti-scientific stance is rightly celebrated, but this documentary doesn’t fully examine his record on Aids
Scientists identify key conditions to set up a creative ‘hot streak’
Researchers use AI to reveal runs of artistic success are commonly preceded by an experimental phase
The Wonderful: Stories from the Space Station review – awe generators turned up to 11
The multi-national International Space Station gets its story told through the men and women who worked on it
‘Maybe the guy’s a masochist’: how Anthony Fauci became a superstar
The US diseases expert has been spoofed by Brad Pitt and lauded as the ‘sexiest man alive’. Now the pop culture phenomenon is the focus of a documentary
As a virologist I’m shocked my work has been hijacked by anti-vaxxers
A news interview I did was re-edited and misquoted by online conspiracy theorists. My advice is: get the vaccine, says David LV Bauer of the Francis Crick Institute
‘The point is ambition’: are we ready to follow Netflix into space?
The ambitious new look at SpaceX’s first all-civilian flight, the streaming platform’s first real-time docuseries, takes reality television to space
Anthropocene: The Human Epoch review – colossal eco doc prettifies disaster
The visuals are impressive but, without giving them the necessary context, this ‘cinematic meditation’ on humanity’s environmental impact only serves to aestheticise destruction
Robo-penguin: how artificial birds are relaying the secrets of ocean currents
They can go on research missions in stormy weather, dive to 150 metres and could soon be ‘singing’ signals. These penguin-like devices are helping to explain the eddies that are key to all life
Here’s why Elon Musk’s robot is electrified neoliberalism
It is time to evaluate how much transformational control we give billionaires over our societies, and our lives
The race to give nuclear fusion a role in the climate emergency
Its energy causes the sun and stars to shine, but to date nuclear fusion has proved too hard to generate at scale. Will recent breakthroughs and massive investment be a game-changer?