Issue 53

About-face

Police forces are coming under fire for their trials of live facial recognition technology Text: Sara Rigby Sara Rigby is the online assistant for BBC Science Focus. She has an MPhys in mathematical physics. What is it? Live facial recognition (LFR), also known as automatic facial recognition, identifies people in a video in real time, […]

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Slipping the noose

An international trip should be an opportunity for learning, growing and excitement, but an advancing virus completely alters the outlook Text: Bruce Dennill Bruce Dennill is the editor of Very Interesting magazine. When I agreed some months ago to go on a content-generating trip to Thailand with a few other journalists, COVID-19 didn’t exist. Or

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Forbidden medicine

From Nazi medicine to GM babies, unethical research has a deeply problematic history. But what should we do when the results of these studies could offer useful scientific insight? Text: Tom Ireland Tom Ireland is editor of The Biologist at the Royal Society of Biology. Follow him on Twitter at @Tom_J_Ireland More than 30 years

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What if we mined the moon?

The moon has abundant natural resources. But what would happen if we went there and extracted them? Text: Stuart Clark Dr Stuart Clark is an astronomy writer and journalist. His latest book is The Unknown Universe. Follow him on Twitter: @DrStuClark Thanks to our exploration of the moon over the past decades, we now know

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