Microalgae: Could it become a food of the future?
In a site near Reykjavik, geothermal energy is being used to create products rich in protein.
Pop star and songwriter Ariana Grande is the latest musician to perform a series of concerts inside the hit video game Fortnite. Millions of gamers are expected to watch the virtual gigs, which see Ariana Grande soar through the sky with huge angel wings while surrounded by players inside bubbles. BBC Click’s gaming reporter Marc…
There can be lots of psychological reasons to enjoy fiction that is fearful, the writer Stephen King has said. “A lot of people enjoy horror stories because it allows them to express their anxieties in ways that don’t have anything to do with the real world,” he told BBC Hardtalk. But fiction that address subjects…
Patience and diplomacy will be needed if we want to find the origins of coronavirus, Prof Dale Fisher, of Singapore’s National University Hospital, has said. His comments came as US President Joe Biden ordered intelligence officials to “redouble” efforts to investigate where the virus started, including the theory that it emerged from a laboratory in…
World Health Organization (WHO) special envoy on Covid-19, Dr David Nabarro, has called on G7 leaders to take responsibility, “beyond positioning”, and form a worldwide coronavirus response programme. The issue needs to be dealt with as a global challenge, Dr Nabarro told BBC World News, with a adequate finance, vaccines, diagnostics, treatment and political support….
Under Taliban rule, female judges in Afghanistan have reportedly been tortured and received death threats. Hundreds were forced into hiding, worried that those they’d convicted would now come to seek their revenge after being released from prison. BBC Newsnight’s Sima Kotecha spoke exclusively to female judges who have just arrived in the UK as part…
Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh married in November 1947. Winston Churchill described it as a flash of colour in the grey post-war Britain.