Jenner Institute at Oxford hopes to recruit healthy volunteers for human challenge trial within months

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The team behind the Oxford Covid-19 vaccine hope to begin tests on volunteers who will be intentionally exposed to the virus in a “challenge trial”, a move seen as controversial as there is no proven cure for the illness.

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South Africans plan to cut spending across a number of areas after the COVID-19 pandemic has run its course, including dining out, alcohol, cigarettes, and DStv.

Scientists have found that some fishes absorb up to 99.956 percent of the light that hits them. The weird deep-sea menagerie just got a whole lot weirder.

Novavax just received the Trump administration’s largest vaccine contract. In the Maryland company’s 33-year history, it has never brought a vaccine to market.

Grant Shapps extends decision deadline after archaeologists’ discovery of prehistoric pits at British World Heritage Site

A decision on whether construction of a road tunnel near Stonehenge, in Wiltshire, can go ahead has been further delayed by the transport secretary, Grant Shapps.

The deadline for the verdict has been extended by four months to late autumn to allow further consultation...

It cites the need to strip out Huawei equipment coupled with economic uncertainty as reasons

Solar Orbiter images shot from between Venus and Mercury orbits show ‘campfires’ in corona

The closest ever images of the sun reveal its surface is speckled with “campfires”, miniature versions of the dramatic solar flares that are visible from Earth.

The observations, beamed back from the Solar Orbiter spacecraft, which is a joint Nasa and European Space Agency (ESA) mission, could help...

On Wednesday, a hack involving high-profile Twitter accounts led the service to suspend the activity of verified users. It was great.

Vodacom has collaborated with Google to launch the world’s first dedicated data bundles for browsing, downloading, and updating apps from the Play Store.

Meet LeakyPick, the low-cost audio spy detector for your Amazon Alexa, Google Home, and other network-connected devices.

As Twitter grapples with the worst-ever security breach, it must now uncover whether its employees were victims of sophisticated phishing or if they deliberately allowed hackers to access high-profile accounts.

A perfect storm of problems – including COVID-19, a series of unplanned breakdowns, and the coldest winter in a decade – led to the return of rolling blackouts in South Africa.

The social network may have secured accounts, but it could still face aftershocks from the attack.

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Biden’s $2tn green agriculture plan is ambitious but realistic. That’s important, because everything is riding on it

The world’s food supply is imperiled by a climate crisis already upon us, and Joe Biden this week put forward an agenda to address it that’s as bold as you could hope from a man who actually intends to get elected.

Related: Biden unveils $700bn ‘buy American’ proposal to revive...

He says social media companies should pay you for the data you produce. But loopholes abound, it’s too expensive, and other plans like it have failed.

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