Tech & Science Daily: Post-Covid 19, what is ‘Disease Y’?

Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert
Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert
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Rachelle Abbott6 December 2021

Just when you thought one super Covid variant was enough to be dealing with - how about another, more contagious pandemic to deal with in the future?

That’s the warning from Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert, one of the inventors of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine.

Professor Gilbert says governments must not squander what they’ve learned about preparedness so we don’t suffer such economic devastation.

TikTok’s been digging into its deep databases to release a snapshot of its 2021 usage trends.

So what makes an earworm in 90 seconds or less? We speak to TikTok’s James Stafford.

What’s been said to look like a potting shed has been spotted on the moon.

China’s Yutu 2 zoomed in for a closer look but found it was more likely to be a big boulder protruding from the surface.

Bitcoin bloodbath: crypto limps into Monday after weekend crash. Nasa approves $400 million funding, including human ‘space reef” after ISS dies. A plane powered by liquid hydrogen is planned for transatlantic flights and, Grimes releases a cold break-up track packed with digs at her ex Elon Musk.

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