Bill Gates: ‘Carbon neutrality in a decade is a fairytale. Why peddle fantasies?’

After putting $100m into Covid research, the billionaire is taking on the climate crisis. And first he has some bones to pick with his fellow campaigners...Read an exclusive extract from Gates’ new book

Billionaire capitalists are designing humanity’s future. Don’t let them

Tech barons like Jeff Bezos want to colonize space and our oceans. Their visions of the future aren’t public-spirited or democratic

A Glitch in the Matrix review – deep-dive into simulation theory

Using animation, archive and clips from the movie franchise, Rodney Ascher’s genre-bending doc gives philosophers and kooks space to explain why we are living in a synthetic world

Spam’s new frontier? Now even spinach can send emails

Scientists at MIT have taken the leafy greens online – in the hope they will be able to warn about explosives

What a great shot! Vaccination selfies become the latest social media hit

A new trend has emerged – public figures posting ‘vaxxies’ showing the moment they received their jab

‘No more monkey selfies’: scientists told images could drive illegal pet trade

New guidelines say pictures posted on social media by primatologists and researchers can inadvertently damage conservation efforts

The five: emotional contagion

The idea that emotions can ‘spread’ from one person to another seems to be taking hold in the psychological world

‘Don’t blame public for overloaded hospitals,’ Covid ICU medics tell NHS staff

Leading doctors have divided opinion among an exhausted workforce by pointing to socioeconomic factors behind coronavirus death toll

Concerns grow for children’s health as screen times soar during Covid crisis

Experts say rise in sleep and eyesight problems may also be linked to increased use of digital devices

‘I worry about their social skills’: parents on children’s screen time in lockdown

While some parents have relaxed limits on devices, many are concerned about the physical and mental health fallout

WHO platform for pharmaceutical firms unused since pandemic began

Exclusive: Covid-19 ‘pool’ to share information has received no contributions since May 2020

Spacewatch: Bezos’s Blue Origin ‘really close’ to flying humans

Space travel company, which plans to take six people on a sub-orbital flight, completes its 14th mission

Carbon capture is vital to meeting climate goals, scientists tell green critics

Supporters insist that storage technology is not a costly mistake but the best way for UK to cut emissions from heavy industry

Archive review – anyone for a posthuman wife? She comes with an off switch

A lonely computer scientist in the year 2038 secretly works on an android version of his wife who died in a car crash – is it romantic, or something more sinister?

The Dig review – Sutton Hoo excavation romance is none too deep

Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes unearth an Anglo-Saxon burial ship, but leave their emotions interred, in this robustly English drama