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New Delhi: The government has advised health professionals to administer a type of flu jab that protects against four different strains as the onset of winter months sees the disease claim lives. The Centre said health professionals should administer the Southern Hemisphere 2024 quadrivalent vaccine, or SH24, which protects against four flu strains. Flu shots […]
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I have to confess, I struggle to watch science documentaries these days – I prefer a bit of escapism from work. But one series I will definitely be tuning in to is the BBC’s Solar System, presented by Brian Cox (pictured above). I didn’t watch Cox’s first series on this topic, made 15 years ago, […]
HowTheLightGetsIn festival Matt Eachus I recently visited a festival of philosophy and music, HowTheLightGetsIn, on London’s Hampstead Heath. I hadn’t been before, but I was chairing an event on “Adventures in Space”, with astrophysicists Avi Loeb and Matt O’Dowd and philosopher Carol Cleland on my panel. They were brilliant – there were some great clashes […]
My recent visit to Berlin for a planetary science conference coincided with Berlin Art Week. The exhibitions were mostly light years away from space and planets, but, to my surprise, some were scientific. Take Rohini Devasher’s exhibition Borrowed Light, an intriguing exploration of astronomy. Its centrepiece, One Hundred Thousand Suns (pictured above), was a four-screen […]
Jennifer Connelly in “Dark Matter” Apple TV+ To me, one of the best parts of a thriller is the moment when the twist hasn’t been revealed yet, but I have already figured it out. For that reason, I have to recommend Dark Matter, a new series on Apple TV+. Starring Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connelly […]