feed info
7 articles from Guardian Unlimited Science
Sold! Bidder pays $28m for spare seat on space flight with Jeff Bezos
Bids in 10-minute auction started at $4.8m for 20 July trip on Blue Origin spacecraft with Bezos and his brother.Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin has sold the spare seat of the company’s 20 July New Shepard space rocket blast-off for $28m, the company announced on Saturday. Related: Rocket men: Bezos, Musk and Branson scramble for space supremacy Continue...
Drop Covid vaccine patent rules to save lives in world’s poorest countries, Britain and Germany told
G7 summit hears move would slash the cost of jabs and accelerate the rollout of programmes across the developing worldBritain and Germany were last night under intense pressure to drop their resistance to proposals that would slash the cost of Covid-19 vaccines, following accusations that an agreement at the G7 summit to fund a billon doses will give the world’s poorest countries “crumbs from...
David Eagleman: ‘The working of the brain resembles drug dealers in Albuquerque’
The neuroscientist, broadcaster and author on the evolution of the brain, the mystery of consciousnesss, and why the next generation will be much smarter than usDavid Eagleman, 50, is an American neuroscientist, bestselling author and presenter of the BBC series The Brain, as well as co-founder and chief executive officer of Neosensory, which develops devices for sensory substitution. His area of...
Boris Johnson hints at delay to England lockdown lifting
Prime minister stresses importance of being cautious, as cases of Delta variant continue to riseCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageBoris Johnson has dropped a heavy hint that the final lifting of lockdown restrictions in England will be delayed by up to a month, as the government prepares to make a final decision over the weekend.The prime minister, who is hosting the G7...
Delay lifting Covid restrictions in England, warn experts
Scientists advise four-week delay to June 21 reopening as cases of Delta variant and hospitalisations doubleExperts – including government scientific advisers – have urged against lifting England’s coronavirus lockdown restrictions on 21 June, warning: “We don’t want to go backwards”.It comes amid reports that lockdown easing will be delayed by four weeks. Continue...
Rocket men: Bezos, Musk and Branson scramble for space supremacy
Experts say three billionaires have upended the traditional model for human spaceflight and are shaping a thriving new eraIt was a week in which two space-faring billionaires tussled again in their futuristic game of cosmic oneupmanship. And this time, for once, Elon Musk was not at the party.The declaration that Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder and world’s richest man, was heading into space next...
Most people in UK initially opposed to Covid vaccine have had jab, study finds
Driving force behind change of heart was being able to travel and see family, researchers sayCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMore than half of the people in the UK who were firmly against getting vaccinated at around the time the first dose was administered have had a jab, a study has suggested.Researchers at the University of Bristol and King’s College London also...