pallab ghosh, bbc news, austin, texas.dwide. the marvel film by disney has been widely praised as game—changing — including by michelle 0bama — for having a largely black cast and a black director. the film stars chadwick boseman, who plays the crime—fighting ruler of a fictional african nation with the most advanced technology on earth. the film became a sensation on social media, with fans using the hashtag ‘what black panther means to me' to highlight its significance for black audiences. to talk about the huge impact it's had let's bring in sylvia 0bell, buzzfeed's entertainment reporter from new york. thank you forjoining us. just how well is this film doing compared to others at the moment? it is doing very well compared to other films. no film has ever come out in february has ever broken the billion. it is the first. it

our science correspondent, pallab ghosh reports. earth stood still, we had the sinister gort. in forbidden planet, there was robby. good night, doctor smith. and robots in lost in space. how close are we to having something like them now? meet the soccer playing robots of the university of texas. they are not being operated by remote control. instead they're making fast moving decisions as a team on their own. that's because they've been programmed with artificial intelligence. they're able to learn from their mistakes and improve their game each time they play. they are honing their skills for the robot world cup, this one from two years ago in leipzig. football is far harder for computers than chess or other boardgames. rather than turn—taking, everybody‘s moving at the same time. if you take too long to think about what you're going to do when you're going to pass the ball the opponents can come and take the ball away from you. it's also continuous, there's not discreet places people can be, but always moving through air, space,

this report from our science correspondent, pallab ghosh.t being operated by remote control. instead they're making fast moving decisions as a team on their own. that's because they've been programmed with artificial intelligence. they're able to learn from their mistakes and improve their game each time they play. they are honing their skills for the robot world cup, this one from two years ago in leipzig. football is far harder for computers than chess or other boardgames. rather than turn—taking, everybody‘s moving at the same time. if you take too long to think about what you're going to do when you're going to pass the ball the opponents can come and take the ball away from you. it's also continuous, there's not discreet places people can be, but always moving through air, space, continuous space, so there's really many challenges in contrast to some

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our science correspondent, pallab ghosh, is here. you met him, you followed this story.cientist of our time. his efforts in sequencing the human genome has changed everything in medicine and will continue to do so. the reason for that is that you and iare the reason for that is that you and i are made of up of dna, a simpler chemical. —— a simple chemical. if we understand how that works then we get an insight into how to cure diseases, how life forms. what he did was he looked that every single bit of that strand of dna and found out what each bid is made of. that is just the start of the process. we don't understand everything yet but it is the start of a pathway that will transform biology in a way that the internet has transformed communications. we don't know what life would be like before that. this is also a great story. this was a race between him and another leading scientist in the field? at the time there was this great race between there was this great race between the two men. it got quite personal. it was also a race between two philosophies. his opponent,

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