It is rocket science...

This week's Upside digest on images sent back from Mars, and other scientific breakthroughs

As technology advances at a seemingly exponential rate, it can be hard to keep up - and journalists don't always get it right.

A report from 2017 found that over half of newspaper articles surveyed on scientific studies were factually incorrect. This was mainly due to journalists writing on initial findings without checking back for follow-ups or meta-studies, which could put a new spin on those first results.