Ian Tucker

From electric bikes and fold-up drones to combat robots and digital skipping ropes… the year’s most desirable technology

Projects from gravitational wave detection to viewing the Milky Way and generating thermonuclear power march ahead

The immunology professor on the personal data which will shape our future and how the pandemic has fired everyone’s interest in the immune system

The US psychology professor talks about her new book on the experience of losing a loved one and the lessons we can learn

The Nasa data scientist explains why inaction on the climate crisis pushed him to chain himself to an LA bank – and why trusting in the ‘people in charge’ is so dangerous

I rumbled a chatbot ruse – but as the tech improves, and news outlets begin to adopt it, how easy will it be to spot it next time?

The president of the not-for-profit messaging app on how she believes existential warnings about AI allow big tech to entrench their power, and why the online safety bill may be unworkable

The US academic on why the Mr Burns caricature of rich people is wrong, the double-edged sword of godlike technologies, and why young people shouldn’t follow their passion

The science journalist reveals what inspired her to write her new book about racism in medicine, and what really needs to be done to tackle ethnic health inequalities

The Fairwork trio talk about their new book on the ‘extraction machine’, exposing the repetitive labour, often in terrible conditions, that big tech is using to create artificial intelligence