China’s first crewed space mission in 5 years blasts off!

China’s first crewed mission to space in five years has launched from a platform in the Gobi desert.

Three astronauts are on board, heading to the Tianhe space station, where they’ll spend three months bringing the facility online.

Cambridge university researchers could be closer to discovering why some pregnancies fail. They have found a group of cells that trigger the development of the head in an embryo.

It’s called the hypoblast and occurs between seven and 14 days after fertilisation.

El Salvador’s hit a roadblock in its plans to adopt bitcoin as legal tender.

The World Bank says it won’t help the Central American country with the logistics of implementing the cryptocurrency. The announcement puts into doubt whether El Salvador will be able to hit its deadline of accepting Bitcoin within three months.

Plus, following Apple, Amazon’s offering to take a smaller cut of the cash made by independent developers using its Fire app store. Researchers in Australia say thousands of mobile health apps have “serious problems with privacy”. Clean Air Day: how do we encourage motorists to switch to electric? And, a charity re-introduces the 1000th dormouse to the wild.

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