Claims that COVID jabs can be used to track you with ‘luciferase’ are false – the substance isn’t even in the vaccine

Alessondra T Speidel, Karolinska Institutet Emerald Robinson, the White House correspondent for the conservative news network Newsmax, recently tweeted that Moderna’s COVID vaccine contains luciferase “so that you can be tracked”. “Read the last book of the New Testament to … Continue reading Claims that COVID jabs can be used to track you with ‘luciferase’ are false – the substance isn’t even in the vaccine

Hideouts, harbours, and homes: how Vikings may have owed their success to their encampments

Christian Cooijmans, University of Liverpool For many years, archaeologists and historians have provided an increasingly informed insight into the dynamic world of the vikings, chipping away at the clichés of a crazed, capricious people preoccupied with beards and bloodshed. One … Continue reading Hideouts, harbours, and homes: how Vikings may have owed their success to their encampments

Modern warfare: ‘precision’ missiles will not stop civilian deaths – here’s why

Peter Lee, University of Portsmouth Modern guided missiles and bombs are capable of incredible, almost science-fiction-like precision. To research my book, Reaper Force, about the lives of drone operators, I was allowed to watch RAF MQ-9 Reaper drones in real-time … Continue reading Modern warfare: ‘precision’ missiles will not stop civilian deaths – here’s why

Most common passwords of 2021: here’s what to do if yours makes the list

Chaminda Hewage, Cardiff Metropolitan University and Elochukwu Ukwandu, Cardiff Metropolitan University If you use “123456”, “password” or “qwerty” as a password, you’re probably aware that you’re leaving yourself vulnerable to hackers. But you’re also not alone – these are three … Continue reading Most common passwords of 2021: here’s what to do if yours makes the list

Bringing people of different faiths together to solve the world’s problems is a noble goal – but it’s hard to know what it achieves

Katherine O’Lone, University of Cambridge and Julian Hargreaves, University of Cambridge An estimated 84% of the global population identifies with a religion. This is over 6.5 billion people. Among thousands of world religions, Christianity is the largest, with 2.3 billion … Continue reading Bringing people of different faiths together to solve the world’s problems is a noble goal – but it’s hard to know what it achieves