‘There were no avatars like me so we made a game’

Fifteen people from various backgrounds have recently left a cave in south-west France after 40 days underground. The experiment was designed to see how the absence of clocks, daylight and external communications would affect the participants’ sense of time. Project director Christian Clot and Marina Lançon, one of the volunteers in the study, told BBC…

The single-shot Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine should get its final approval in the United States later on Friday. If approved the US would be the first country in the world to do so. Infectious disease expert and adviser to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr Helen Talbot, told BBC World News that…

Mel Brooks, an all-round Hollywood legend, responsible for films like The Producers, Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein, has produced his first autobiography, at the age of 95. His son Max encouraged him to write the 450-page All About Me! during the first lockdown. The BBC’s Alan Yentob, who has made several documentaries with the entertainer,…

More than 6,500 pupils from across the UK took part in the CyberFirst Girls competition.

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…

Norway took the decision to pause using the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine as precautionary measure, Sara Watle, senior physician at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health said. She told BBC World News: “The four cases were clusters so they were reported to us in a very short period of time and the four cases have all occurred…