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Are period tracking apps a privacy concern? Andrea Ford, University of Edinburgh & Laura Lazaro Cabrera, Privacy International In late June, a law that was construed as granting the right to have an abortion in the US – Roe vs. Wade – was overturned, leaving decisions on the legality of the procedure for each state. Since then, half of US states have made moves to ban or restrict abortion, which technically means any woman who seeks the procedure can be prosecuted. After Roe vs Wade, a viral message quickly spread online, telling women to delete any period tracking app they were using. But why is this app a concern? Julia Ravey talks to Andrea Ford, a medical and cultural anthropologist at the University of Edinburgh… Andrea- There have been many concerns that have arisen since the news in the US. The concern is that the data in your app could potentially be used as incriminating evidence, if you were in a situation where you were mistreated for having an abortion. So that it can

It’s been an exciting week with the release of amazing photos of our Universe by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Images like the one below give us the opportunity to see distant, faint galaxies as they did more than 13 billion years ago. The field image in SMACS 0723 was taken with just a 12.5 hour exposure. The faint galaxy in this image emitted this light more than 13 billion years ago. NASA, ESA, CSA and STScI This is a great time to step back and appreciate our first class ticket to the depths of the Universe and how these images allow us to look back in time. These images also raise an interesting point about how the expansion of the Universe factors into the way we calculate distances on a cosmological scale. Modern time travel Looking back in time may sound like a strange concept, but that’s what space researchers do every day. Our Universe is bound by the rules of physics, with one of the best known “rules” being the speed of lig