Tech & Science Daily podcast: Donald Trump’s return to Facebook

Plus, Mattia Gazzola explains robot with lab-grown mouse muscles
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Rachelle Abbott|Jon Weeks26 January 2023

Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts have been reinstated, two years after he was suspended from the platforms following the Capitol Riots.

In a blogpost, parent company Meta said if he posts “further violating content” the former president would be banned again “for between one month and two years”.

A team of scientists in the US have created a biohybrid robot that walks using lab-grown mouse muscle cells.

The devices are remote-controlled, and use light to stimulate the muscle cells, and make the robot itself walk.

Mattia Gazzola, a mechanical engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign told Tech & Science Daily how significant the robots are now and for the future.

Experts at the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) London have found that cancer cells can change size to evade treatment.

The researchers believe that smaller cancer cells could be more vulnerable to DNA-damaging agents like chemotherapy combined with targeted drugs, while bigger cells might respond better to immunotherapy, which harnesses the power of a person’s own immune system.

One of the closest asteroid encounters ever recorded is expected to take place on Thursday evening.

A space rock around the size of a small lorry will pass Earth at around 7.30pm GMT, and is set to come within a tenth of the distance of most communication satellites.

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