South Africa on Sunday said it would suspend its rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine after initial trials showed “disappointing” results against the B.1.351 variant of COVID-19 . The country has...
The ethical concerns of space exploration & the search for extraterrestrial intelligence
This week, we’re talking about space exploration and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Were we really visited by aliens in 2017, like a Harvard professor is suggesting? What could be the consequences...
Press Preview: What’s on Monday’s front pages?
Sky’s Anna Jones takes a look at what stories are making the front pages on Monday with the New Statesman’s political editor Stephen Bush and The Spectator’s economics correspondent Kate Andrews.
Oxford vaccine ‘less effective’ on South Africa variant
The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is less effective against the South Africa variant of COVID-19, researchers have found.
Trump trial to begin this week
The impeachment trial of former US President Donald Trump is due to get under way in the Senate this week. Trump is accused of ‘inciting violence against the government of the United States’ following last month’s...
Myanmar military coup | Police deploy water cannon to disperse the crowd
Mass peaceful demonstrations in #Myanmar against the military #coup continued for the third day in a row, with thousands participating throughout the country. In the capital, #Naypyidaw, police briefly used a water...