Germany’s ‘virus detectives’ rely on old-fashioned approach and manually traced coronavirus

Unlike the UK and many other countries, Germany never gave up on contact tracing, even as infections ballooned. While Britain’s Ministers stopped trying to keep tabs on new infections on March 12 – believing there was little point as cases were likely to head into the millions – Germany persevered by doggedly pursuing the contacts … Read more

SpaceX creates a simulator that lets you play at being an astronaut manually docking with the ISS 

SpaceX have created a Crew Dragon simulator that lets you play at being an astronaut and practise manually docking with the International Space Station. The free-to-play browser based tool presents users with a digital copy of the real-life controls astronauts would use if they needed to manually dock with the ISS.  The real Crew Dragon … Read more