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Roger Highfield: 80 per cent executive at the Science Museum Group / 20 per cent author, journalist and broadcaster.
Views expressed here are 100 per cent his own.
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Never gets old. Second consecutive landing for this particular booster. #NewShepard https://t.co/Lia4GDX9yO
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articles
Here are a few of my latest articles. There are more in my archive.
29
Mar

Should we trust computers?
Following the publication of a Phil Trans A theme issue, Roger Highfield explores the issues
29
Mar

Back to the future of computing
The next generation of high-performance computers might see a return of the oldest form of all, analogue computing, according to Science Director, Roger Highfield.
24
Mar

Coronavirus: the moth vaccine
Roger Highfield, Science Director, discusses two new COVID-19 vaccines under development, one of which is manufactured by cells from the fall armyworm moth
12
Mar

Jaipur Literature Festival: Innovation, imagination and creativity
Vinay Sahasrabuddhe, Mugdha Sinha, Shubhendra Rao and Roger Highfield in conversation with Sanjoy K. Roy
11
Mar

coronavirus:how to vaccinate a nation
How do you ensure that ‘COVID-19 jabs are in arms, not fridges’? Roger Highfield, Science Director, talks to Dr Emily Lawson, England’s vaccine deployment lead
22
Feb

CORONAVIRUS: HOW THE UK BACKED VACCINE WINNERS
How do you know which vaccine research to back when a pandemic starts? Roger Highfield, Science Director, talks to Kate Bingham, former chair of the UK Government's Vaccine Taskforce.
18
Feb

Coronavirus: how dead virus can save lives
A traditional kind of vaccine is being readied for the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Roger Highfield finds out about Europe’s first ‘inactivated virus’ vaccine
11
Feb

coronavirus: the one-shot vaccine
Roger Highfield, Science Director, talks to the scientist behind the world’s first COVID-19 vaccine that requires only a single dose.
10
Feb

COVID-19: A SYMPTOM OF GAIA’S SICKNESS?
Before James Lovelock's event at the Manchester Science Festival, Science Museum Group's Science Director Roger Highfield talks to him about Gaia, his work in Manchester and climate change.
04
Feb

coronavirus: the global covid19 observatory
For the first time, scientists can see a pandemic evolve in real time at the genetic level, revealing ‘variants of concern’ while guarding for large-scale genetic changes in COVID-19