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Some strange units of measure, plus the first statue for the creator of bitcoin and the (lack of) connection between bluetooth and covid-19, in Feedback’s weird weekly round-up

How did Hakeem Oluseyi move from selling drugs to teaching astrophysics at MIT? His vivid memoir sets out his journey and what he's doing to help other Black physicists

Astronomers have discovered many more fast radio bursts in space, almost quadruple the amount known previously. They estimate that around 9000 should be visible in the sky every day

Research suggests the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine is associated with a slightly increased risk of some bleeding disorders, but its benefits continue to outweigh the risks

Google creates custom processors to run its various artificial intelligence algorithms, and now it has tasked an AI with speeding up the process of designing more efficient chips

Some supermassive black holes blast out powerful winds that astrophysicists suspected could kill small neighbouring galaxies – but it turns out they actually clear a spot for those small galaxies to settle into

The most powerful microscopes have limited detail when they observe living cells, but a quantum trick with laser light has allowed researchers to overcome those limits

The coronavirus pandemic has caused a slump in the sale of electronic devices and may give governments breathing room to tackle e-waste recycling, suggest UN researchers. Currently, only 17 per cent of e-waste is properly recycled

We are finally getting to grips with why processed foods are unhealthy. What we’re learning has already triggered some governments to act – and suggests how to make healthier “junk food”

Astronomers have found molecules that could be the building blocks of life in the far reaches of our galaxy, which may broaden the horizons of the search for extraterrestrial life

New drugs are rarely tested in pregnant people, leaving harmful gaps in our medical knowledge, but the tide of opinion on including them in trials is starting to change

The current generation of walking robots are not particularly energy efficient, according to an analysis which also shows how much more efficient they could be

Cattle have brains around 26 per cent smaller than the extinct aurochs, which may be their wild ancestor – and they are even smaller among dairy cows that spend more time with humans

In 2013, a grey whale was spotted off the coast of Namibia, far from the species' traditional habitat. Now DNA analysis has revealed it must have travelled 20,000 kilometres to get there, a record mammal migration

A type of South African honeybee can perfectly clone itself – and one line of clones began with an individual that has now been copied hundreds of millions of times

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Ahead of the G7 summit in the UK this week, celebrities including Billie Eilish and Claudia Schiffer are urging rich nations not to wait until they have vaccinated their populations before donating vaccines elsewhere

Devi Sridhar has been a constant voice in the ear of governments throughout the pandemic. She tells Adam Vaughan why scientists aren’t to blame for lockdowns and why we must not become complacent about the virus's toll

Gravitational wave observatories have spotted black holes that were too massive to be explained by our best models, and they may have formed from weird stars in the early universe

The moon may seem little more than a boring piece of rock, barely worth keeping. But it may be the reason for our existence. Join Sam as he explores Earth's shiny sidekick