The landing marks the third spacecraft to arrive at Mars within two weeks NASA’s Perseverance rover (illustrated) will land in Jezero crater, Mars, on February 18. By Lisa Grossman The NASA Perseverance rover has landed. “Touchdown confirmed! Perseverance is safely on the surface of Mars,…

– University of Vienna Quantum technologies for computers open up new concepts of preserving the privacy of input and output data of a computation. Scientists have shown that optical quantum systems are not only particularly suitable for some quantum computations, but can also effectively encrypt…

– Dr Klara Saville 1.3bn people depend on healthy animals for their livelihood, yet access to animal health systems is poor or non-existent in many areas. As the UK moves into another national lockdown, sadly one thing we can confidently say about the Covid-19 pandemic…

– Kim Sengupta A UK Task Group has been deployed to Mali to support the UN peacekeeping mission (MoD) British troops sent to Mali as part of an international force facing an Islamist insurgency have started carrying out missions in an area which has seen…

– Independent French and West African heads of state have begun a two-day summit focusing on the fight against Islamic extremists in Africa’s Sahel region, as France considered a gradual reduction of its troops in the area. The leaders of Mali Burkina Faso, Chad, Niger…