Tech & Science Daily podcast: Earth now has record 8 billion people

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Rachelle Abbott15 November 2022

The world’s population was due to reach a record eight billion people on Tuesday.

The United Nations describes the figure as a “milestone in human development”, with a peak of 10.4 billion people expected in the 2080s.

It’s mostly middle-income countries in Asia accounting for an extra 700 million people since 2011.

Nasa satellite imaging has confirmed the world’s largest iceberg, A-76A, is floating from Antarctica towards the warmer seas of the Equator.

This beast of a berg is about twice the size of London and shines a light on the horrors of global warming.

Research by London scientists using a custom-built super-microscope has uncovered groundbreaking new evidence of how electrical voltage signals in breast cancer cells behave.

We meet co-lead author Dr Amanda Foust, from Imperial College London’s Department of Bioengineering, who collaborated with life sciences colleagues and the Institute of Cancer Research.

And the rest

Plus, Chinese YouTubers claim to have built the world’s first foldable iPhone and Amazon plans to drop Prime parcels from drones to customers in two US cities - although there are fears of mass job cuts at the e-retailer.

University of Bath researchers shed new light on gamma ray bursts and there are some almost alien-looking creatures living near ancient volcanoes under the Indian Ocean.

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