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Nasa picks SpaceX to build spacecraft to return humans to moon
Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur behind the Tesla electric car brand is celebrating more success today after his SpaceX project was selected by Nasa to build the next moon lander. The $3 billion dollar project will try to land people on the moon by 2024, which would be 55 years since Neil Armstrong made history…
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Can the UK vaccinate its way out of the Covid crisis?
Throughout the pandemic, Paddy Worrall and his award-winning Channel 4 News FactCheck team have crunched the data and the challenged government soundbites, and he joins us today to discuss how to vaccinate a nation.
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Facebook QAnon pledge is ‘public relations manoeuvre’ – Imran Ahmed, Center for Countering Digital Hate
Today, Facebook has pledged to remove all QAnon-themed groups, pages and accounts.
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Latest COVID-19 science updates: antibody persistence, young people and air pollution
As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, scientists are rushing to carry out and publish research which will help us understand how the virus works, and how the disease it causes can be treated.
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Latest COVID-19 science updates: facemasks, high blood pressure and a new disease in children
As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, scientists are rushing to carry out and publish research which will help us understand how the virus works, and how the disease it causes can be treated.
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Coronavirus tracing app has ‘potential to stop the epidemic’, say Oxford scientists
More than half of the population will need to use the app in order to stop the virus completely.
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Whitney Houston hologram takes centre stage in UK tour
Buddy Holly’s done it, Roy Orbison’s done it, and now Whitney Houston’s doing it. It’s a hologram tour – where singers take to the stage long after their deaths by using the latest technology.
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Diesel cars could be banned from Bristol city centre
Would you agree to a total ban on all diesel cars in your city centre to bring down air pollution?
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Israeli spacecraft crashes on moon
The first privately-funded mission to the moon has ended rather abruptly.
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NZ gunman live-streamed attacks on Facebook
Are social media firms doing enough to tackle extremism and stop the live-streaming of violence?
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Drones explained: has the technology risen too fast?
Just how dangerous are drones to aircraft? And what can be done to stop them flying in such sensitive airspace and causing such mayhem?
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Facebook fires PR firm accused of smearing rivals
Facebook has fired a PR firm which it allegedly hired to dig up dirt on some of its competitors and critics, following a major investigation in the New York Times.
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Nick Clegg appointed Facebook communications chief
He hasn’t had a proper job since losing his seat as an MP. But now Nick Clegg, the former deputy prime minister, has landed on his feet in Silicon Valley. He’s off to California in a new, and presumably well-paid, role as global affairs and communications chief at Facebook. Mr Clegg said he was looking forward…
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Interview with Yuval Noah Harari inside a South London school
He’s the Israeli historian best known as the author of “Sapiens”, which looked at the evolution of humankind – and now Yuval Harari has published “21 Lessons for the 21st Century,” a book warning us how to harness the greatest global revolution to date: the rise of artificial intelligence. Cathy Newman went to meet him…
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First anti-fracking protesters jailed
Three anti-fracking activists have been jailed for causing a public nuisance, after they climbed on to lorries outside a fracking site near Blackpool. The judge at Preston crown court said their actions had also significantly disrupted local residents, who depended on using the surrounding main road.