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Have you downloaded a contact tracing app? If not, you’re in a huge majority. Most countries that have launched apps to alert users when they’ve come into contact with someone infected with COVID-19 have failed to get more than 20% of their populations to install the software. That’s a long way from the estimated 56% that a report published back during the first wave of COVID-19 said would help bring the pandemic to an end.
It’s too early to say that contact tracing apps won’t work but based on what we know about how their design, their popularity and how people respond to instructions to self-isolate, the signs aren’t looking good.
Landing a spacecraft on an asteroid is a major technological achievement. Monica Grady – part of the team that landed a probe on a comet in 2014 – explains the challenges involved. And closer to home, the increasing chances of a no-deal Brexit are threatening the UK’s ability to cope with pandemics.
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Stephen Harris
Commissioning + Science Editor
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Checking in.
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Allison Gardner, Keele University
Download rates have been disappointing and people aren't following self-isolation warnings.
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Artist’s concept of the OSIRIS REx spacecraft collecting material from Bennu.
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Monica Grady, The Open University
Bennu will tell us about our own origins as much as about the origin of asteroid Bennu.
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EU countries are working together to procure a lot of PPE.
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Andrew Glencross, Aston University
The EU is becoming a key player in the global market for PPE and the UK could miss out if it doesn't strike a deal.
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Politics + Society
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Clodagh Harrington, De Montfort University; Alex Waddan, University of Leicester
From healthcare, to the environment, immigration and racial justice, which areas of Barack Obama's legacy were the most vulnerable – and most resilient – during Donald Trump's first term?
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Robert Hinck, Monmouth College; Robert Utterback, Monmouth College; Skye Cooley, Oklahoma State University
In 2016, America's adversaries seemed to cheer electoral chaos and a withering faith in democracy. Now they seem to be hoping democracy can topple a leader they've grown loathe to deal with.
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Matteo Fumagalli, University of St Andrews
Struggling to handle a pandemic and general economic crisis, Kyrgyzstan has just seen its president ousted by an ex-convict as Russia and China watch from the sidelines.
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Damilola Agbalajobi, Obafemi Awolowo University
Although the Nigerian government has announced the disbanding of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, protesters have not let up. They are now calling for wider reforms.
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Health + Medicine
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Sarah L Caddy, University of Cambridge
Coronavirus trial protocols have only recently been released. This is what they show.
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Ian Taylor, Loughborough University
Focus on "being" an exerciser, instead of seeing exercise as something you "should" do.
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Gunter Kuhnle, University of Reading
After nearly ten years and 25,000 urine samples, scientists have finally proven that flavanols can reduce blood pressure.
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Arts + Culture
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Tiffani Angus, Anglia Ruskin University
As a child, there is unbound magic in a garden and during COVID-19 many of us adults discovered their importance anew.
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Ali Bowes, Nottingham Trent University
During the break in competition caused by COVID-19, sportswomen lost wages, trained less and had poorer access to equipment than their male counterparts
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Business + Economy
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Ghulam Sorwar, Keele University
The first trading day after Moody's cut the UK to three notches below Aaa, the markets shrugged.
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Environment + Energy
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Jens Marquardt, Stockholm University
Activists can broaden the purview of green recovery plans and highlight issues of climate justice.
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