We know Amazon is killing the high street, so why do we keep clicking on ‘buy now’?

The online giant devotes vast resources to instantly gratify our shopping desires, says author Adam Greenfield

In space, no one will hear Bezos and Musk’s workers’ call for basic rights

The bosses of Tesla and Amazon want to take humans to Mars and beyond – but won’t show basic humanity on Earth

Elon Musk’s SpaceX delivers new crew to International Space Station

Tech boss ‘proud’ to be working with space agencies as astronauts begin six-month mission

Cielo review – love letter to the desert’s starry skies

Alison McAlpine’s documentary draws out tales from locals and astronomers to evoke the magic and mystery of Chile’s stargazing hotspot

Study explores inner life of AI with robot that ‘thinks’ out loud

Italian researchers enabled Pepper robot to explain its decision-making processes

Vodka, toothpaste, yoga mats … the new technology making items out of thin air

An exhibition at London’s Science Museum shows how far carbon capture research has come

AI ethicist Kate Darling: ‘Robots can be our partners’

The MIT researcher says that for humans to flourish we must move beyond thinking of robots as potential future competitors

Sitting in a tin can: why sci-fi films are finally telling astronaut life like it is

New Netflix drama Stowaway is the latest in a crop of movies that suggests space travel is more random death and boredom than warp speed nine

Henry Glassie: Field Work review – hypnotic glimpses of folk art in the making

This documentary about the celebrated folklorist also takes a leisurely look at the working methods of the artists he reveres

Why are there still so few black scientists in the UK?

There have been many reports but little action: the UK’s university science departments have a serious diversity problem – experts explain what needs to change

Scientists create online games to show risks of AI emotion recognition

Public can try pulling faces to trick the technology, while critics highlight human rights concerns

Oxford Nanopore float offers London a proper tech future

Planned IPO of life science group will test LSE’s appetite for funding high-growth tech

EU plan threatens British participation in hi-tech research

Commission security proposal would restrict UK access to Horizon Europe quantum computing project

‘It was like a horror film’: inside the terror of the Covid cruise ship

HBO documentary The Last Cruise revisits, through footage recorded by passengers and crew, the early-pandemic horror of the Diamond Princess cruise disaster

Ammonite review – Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan find love among the fossils

Francis Lee’s sensational biopic of palaeontology pioneer Mary Anning reimagines her erotic encounter with a woman trapped in a stifling marriage