Contest inspires next generation of female code breakers

Despite increasing international concern about global warming, one of the world’s greatest defences against climate change – the Amazon rainforest – is under growing attack from deforestation. But while environmentalists see protection of the Amazon as vital, many of those working and making a living in it – including those cutting down its trees – say they depend…

The healthcare system lacks equipment, buildings are crumbling and many healthcare workers have left in search of better lives.

With a wide range of shapes, sizes and colours, finding the right pair of glasses can take time. But this means companies may also have to overstock to provide the wide selection of products customers expect. So could face scanning combined with 3D-printing change how we buy glasses and help move towards a more sustainable…

Researchers have found that people diagnosed with Covid-19 in the previous six months were more likely to develop depression, dementia, psychosis and stroke. One in three people who had previously had coronavirus went on to develop or have relapse of a psychological or neurological condition. Neurology professor Masud Husain, one of the authors of the…

BBC Click’s LJ Rich looks at some of the best technology news stories of the week including: Up to 150,000 security cameras were hacked in schools, hospitals and businesses – the company that makes the cameras is investigating Ride-hailing company Ola announces plans to build the world’s largest two-wheeler factory in India A robot uses…

The evacuation flights out of Afghanistan may have largely stopped, but with international funding largely frozen, and a humanitarian crisis escalating, thousands are still desperate to find a way out. The remote town of Zaranj, close to the borders of both Pakistan and Iran, is a major people smuggling hub. Traffickers there told BBC Afghanistan…