Billionaire, 49, confirms move to Wall Street Journal and says he plans to focus on new Tesla plant and SpaceX ventureElon Musk said on Tuesday he had relocated to Texas from California, where he plans to focus more on the new Tesla plant and his SpaceX venture. Related: Joe Biden pledges to distribute 100m vaccine shots in first 100 days of presidency – live Continue...

Protecting patients from Covid-19 is a wonderful step forward. But we cannot yet afford to relax our guardCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe face of hope in 2020 is 90-year-old Margaret Keenan, the first patient worldwide to receive the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. After a year mostly spent self-isolating, she described her dose as “the best thing that’s ever...

Dr Richard Lawson argues for the need to prioritise frontline workers, Dr Hugh Adler praises clinical trial volunteers, and Heidi Chow says patents must be suspended so all countries can access the Covid vaccine“NHS staff no longer top priority to receive coronavirus vaccine” (Report, 3 December). This is because the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) advises that the first...

American pilot who was the first person to fly faster than the speed of soundChuck Yeager, who has died aged 97, stands alongside the Wright Brothers and Charles Lindbergh in the history of American aviation. In 1947 Yeager was the first person to break the sound barrier; and, in hitting Mach 1, he set the US on a path that was to lead to Neil Armstrong’s 1969 moon landing.On the evening of...

Are the robots going to kills us? Film-maker Tonje Hessen Schei speaks to a range of interviewees including Elon Musk’s computer scientist in an eye-opening, anxiety-inducing filmWhat will happen when robots become smarter than humans – will they want to kill us? No, according to the computer scientist in charge of Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence research company OpenAI. His name is Ilya...

Comments raise hopes that the vaccine could soon be available to Americans aged 16 and aboveUS Food and Drug Administration (FDA) staff said on Tuesday that data on Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine was in line with its guidance on emergency use authorization, raising hopes it could soon be available to Americans aged 16 and above.The comments were made in documents released ahead of Thursday’s...

North Yorkshire’s two national parks, the Yorkshire Dales and North York Moors, have been named international dark sky reserves after a five-year campaign for designation, forming the largest dark sky area in the UK Continue...

More than a million of you read our article calling for volunteers to take part in research into why some gamers invert their controls. The response was incredibleIt is fair to say that no one was anticipating this. When the Guardian ran my article on the Visual Perception and Attention Lab at Brunel University London and how it planned to investigate why some gamers invert their controls, I...

Funding and high public interest contributed to slashing of research and approval time Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe emergence of vaccines against Covid-19 has been hailed as gamechanger by experts, but polls have revealed the speed of their development and approval is a matter of concern for some people. We take a look at how and why such processes were so...

From black holes to consciousness, Nobel-winner Roger Penrose shows the beauty of theory. But it needs more support• Dr Thomas Fink is the director of the London Institute for Mathematical SciencesFrom electromagnetism to quantum mechanics, the greatest scientific discoveries often require little more than a blackboard, a stick of chalk and a congenial place in which to think. The breakthroughs...

The US aviation legend was a fighter ace in the second world war, before becoming the first man to break the sound barrier, training test pilots, fighting in the Vietnam war and becoming immortalised in The Right StuffChuck Yeager, first man to break the sound barrier, dies aged 97 Continue...

Yeager’s postwar exploits took humankind to the brink of space exploration and were immortalised in celebrated book and film The Right StuffChuck Yeager, the American pilot who became the first person to break the sound barrier and was later immortalised in The Right Stuff, has died at the age of 97.“It is [with] profound sorrow, I must tell you that my life love General Chuck Yeager passed...

The alarming pattern of second waves of Covid-19 infection across the world, and the promise of vaccines on the horizon, has once again brought public health messaging into focus. So what has the pandemic taught us about what makes a successful programme? The Guardian’s health editor, Sarah Boseley, speaks to Prof Linda Bauld about how best to encourage people to change their behaviour in order...