Sir Richard Branson’s satellite launching company Virgin Orbit has successfully completed its first mission delivering NASA satellites into space.The payload of 10 CubeSats was brought to low Earth orbit on […]

The University of Oxford has been given £100m – one of the largest donations in its history – for a new institute focusing on resistance to antibiotics. The gift from chemicals […]

WhatsApp is delaying the rollout of new business features following a user backlash over the company’s data sharing practices. The delay is a setback for its plan to generate revenue […]

For a few hours this week, we were given an insight into the closely-guarded secret at the centre of the UK’s vaccination programme. It came courtesy of the Scottish government, […]

Home Secretary Priti Patel must “take responsibility” for the wiping of 150,000 arrest records from police databases, the Labour Party says. The records were accidentally wiped last week and they […]

People who’ve had COVID are likely to be protected from reinfection for at least five months and have a similar defence to someone who’s been vaccinated, according to a UK […]

AstraZeneca says it expects to release two million doses of the Oxford vaccine every week by mid-February – and has asked for its workers to get priority access to avoid […]

Donald Trump has been banned from uploading videos on YouTube “in light of concerns about the ongoing potential for violence”, the platform said. YouTube, which is owned by Google’s parent […]

How often have you stood in a queue and caught the whiff of someone smoking several metres away? Now imagine that’s a cloud of the COVID virus that you’re inhaling. […]

Twitter has suspended 70,000 accounts linked to the far-right conspiracy movement QAnon in light of the violence at the US Capitol last week. The social media platform said it began […]