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Meet the YouTube astrophysicist – BBC News
Among the millions of channels on YouTube is “Dr Becky”, an astrophysicist who is trying to encourage others into STEM careers (science, technology, engineering and mathematics).
As a research fellow at the University of Oxford, Dr Becky Smethurst specialises in black holes, but outside the day job she posts videos on all sorts of space-themed questions.
Her aim is to be someone in the world of scientific research that people can have a connection with.
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A new personalised vaccine given in combination with a drug has stopped skin cancer returning in patients during a trial, representing a potentially watershed moment in cancer treatment. Scientists used mRNA technology, which was used for some Covid-19 vaccines.
But that technology – and vaccines more generally – have become increasingly controversial in the United States since the Covid-19 pandemic. The Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, is a vaccine sceptic.
In August 2025 cancelled $500m (£376m) in funding for mRNA vaccine research. The move impacted 22 projects being led by major pharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer and Moderna, for vaccines against bird flu and other viruses, according to Kennedy’s department.
We speak to Tom Whipple, host of the BBC’s Inside Science programme, about the science of this new vaccine. And we ask how funding cuts for vaccine research could impact health outcomes not just for Americans, but for the world.
0:00 How does the new mRNA skin cancer vaccine work?
2:56 How effective is the new cancer vaccine?
5:06 How do mRNA vaccines work?
6:51 How was mRNA technology developed?
10:26 How did Covid change mRNA vaccines?
12:01 Why is RFK Jr cutting mRNA funding?
15:19 Are mRNA vaccines safe?
18:48 Why is the FDA approving an mRNA flu vaccine?
21:00 What does the future of mRNA research look like?
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Historic first as Chinese robot beats Usain Bolt’s 100m world record at Beijing games | BBC News
A Chinese humanoid robot has run 100 metres in 9.39 seconds in a preliminary heat at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, surpassing the men’s world record time held by Jamaican sprinting great Usain Bolt.
Tiangong Ultra, developed by the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, won its heat at the opening of the games’ second edition. The robot overtook smartphone maker Honor’s Lightning near the finish after falling behind early in the race. Lightning finished in 9.47 seconds, also faster than the 9.58-second record Bolt set at the 2009 World Athletics Championships in Berlin.
The results marked a remarkable improvement from last year’s inaugural games, when Tiangong Ultra won the 100 metres in 21.50 seconds. Tiangong also won the world’s first humanoid robot half-marathon, held in Beijing last year.
The 100 metres is among 51 events at the games, which include football, dancing and contests to complete industrial tasks.
China is promoting humanoid robots as a strategic emerging industry, with policymakers and companies betting that advances in AI and hardware will accelerate their use in manufacturing, logistics and consumer applications.
Investor enthusiasm for the sector was underscored recently when shares in Unitree, China’s best-known humanoid robot maker, jumped more than five fold in its Shanghai trading debut, giving the company a market value of about $50 billion.
This year’s games have drawn 2,056 robots from 666 teams across 16 countries and six continents, up from 280 teams at the inaugural event.
Clive Myrie presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Laura Bicker in Beijing.
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Every year, new reports warn that our roads are getting worse and potholes are becoming more common. Experts say the cost of …
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Artificial intelligence was the technology lots of people wanted to talk about at the Dentistry Show in Birmingham, UK.
From 3D printing to digital scanners and AI receptionists, there are many ways in which technology is helping dentists’ workflow.
We tried some of the tech on display.
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There was a time when sleeping was simple – but now, it’s a bit more complicated.
Sleep has rules – there’s the right bedtime, the right temperature, and the right amount of deep sleep.
It’s not just something we do, it’s something we measure.
But is all this number punching actually helping us rest?
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@marvinsamuels1237
December 29, 2023 at 9:48 pm
So glad Dr Smethurst has made it on The Sky At Night.
She deserves it on her enthusiasm alone. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
@elmoteroloco
December 29, 2023 at 9:48 pm
☸🚀🛰🐧🌌🎀🦙🪴
@georgeb.wolffsohn30
December 29, 2023 at 9:48 pm
STEM is missing something :
A
A stands for art the creative process.
If you add an A to STEM
you get STEAM.
NOW you're really moving.
@georgeb.wolffsohn30
December 29, 2023 at 9:48 pm
If there can be a friendly neighborhood Spiderman there can be a friendly neighborhood Astrophysicist.
@norenemies
December 29, 2023 at 9:48 pm
Dr. Becky and Mainstream Science: The Real Shameful Cosmological Crisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP3u42eBDDY
@alwaysdisputin9930
December 29, 2023 at 9:48 pm
Does the arm wave dance have a restoring force & momentum like other waves?
@indianchannel323
December 29, 2023 at 9:48 pm
Fake channel in world
@beadyeye1305
December 29, 2023 at 9:48 pm
What do you mean by meet, BBC? I've not met this person so get your language corrected
@cheruzaleming
December 29, 2023 at 9:48 pm
Neil deGrasse Tyson has entered the chat room
@younessadok7583
December 29, 2023 at 9:48 pm
QUEST? YOU WAIT A BABY BORN ( IN WHAT GALAXY Y WON'T HIM TO BELONG ! ) .PEACE .
@bryanvuzutube
December 29, 2023 at 9:48 pm
https://youtu.be/k5zhz2Ofw0s
@auro1986
December 29, 2023 at 9:48 pm
bbc is space travel there in your horoscope?
@Honeypepper.
December 29, 2023 at 9:48 pm
Correction, there is no "big bang" There is a creator however, that created the universe! Stop feeding people lies! You cannot throw ingredients up into the air and it suddenly forms a cake! That's ludicrous and so is the big bang theory 😒😒
@winstar9103
December 29, 2023 at 9:48 pm
I want to become an astrophysicist should I opt for joint physics and math or only major in single
@alendelgado6215
December 29, 2023 at 9:48 pm
Chapter 1. THE PARTIES OF THE WITCHES AND ALL THEIR EVILTS. Matthew 18: 1-5
Who Is the Greatest?
18 1 At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?”
2 And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them
3 and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
4 Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
5 “Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, 6 but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin,[a] it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea. Amen.
@3101010
December 29, 2023 at 9:48 pm
For a Transgender women she appears to be smart but is she really an astrophysicist ?
@carloslee8396
December 29, 2023 at 9:48 pm
I always get lost when I look into the sky full of stars in the sunny evening.
@chrisgriffiths2533
December 29, 2023 at 9:48 pm
Sorry, Time Definetly Existed before this Recent Big Bang.
@rickerbarren8469
December 29, 2023 at 9:48 pm
Lol
Except making food and nurturing child women know nothing —-pluto .
@rickerbarren8469
December 29, 2023 at 9:48 pm
Kitchen is factory for women
—- a wise man
@rickerbarren8469
December 29, 2023 at 9:48 pm
And i am YouTube Playboy .
BBC come to my home for my interview .
@akintayo
December 29, 2023 at 9:48 pm
Dr. Becky's YouTube page everyone:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYNbYGl89UUowy8oXkipC-Q
@colinmcmahon5829
December 29, 2023 at 9:48 pm
I didn't expect a Ring, BbSee?
Barry, look at that hole thrunthe middle and the one in Whites lunch box …
Wow. Desk job, huh?
Cath, who the hell are you, Aunt? Shouldn't I know something?
@sreejithkayes
December 29, 2023 at 9:48 pm
Please see her channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYNbYGl89UUowy8oXkipC-Q