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Anjana Ahuja is a contributing writer on science for the FT. She has a PhD in space physics from Imperial College London. She is on book leave until early summer.
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  • Tuesday, 28 June, 2022
    Medical science
    Monkeypox makes pledges of pandemic solidarity look hollow

    The global south has once again been abandoned in its quest for vaccines

  • Thursday, 23 June, 2022
    Summer Books 2022
    Best summer books of 2022: Health and Wellbeing

    Anjana Ahuja selects her best mid-year reads

  • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
    ReviewScience books
    Life Time — how to revolutionise your sleep

    Russell Foster presents a comprehensive manifesto for living in harmony with our body clocks

  • Wednesday, 15 June, 2022
    Scientific research
    Leaving Horizon would make a mockery of Britain’s desire to be a science superpower

    Researchers are already moving to countries where it is easier to operate and collaborate

  • Tuesday, 7 June, 2022
    Science
    Science should beware being drawn into the asylum seeker debate

    Differing individual development produces ambiguity in exactly the age range in which delicate judgments must be made

  • Wednesday, 1 June, 2022
    Gun control
    America’s shootings are a public health emergency

    Scientists and doctors have mobilised against powerful vested interests such as Big Tobacco before — and must do so again

  • Wednesday, 25 May, 2022
    Medical science
    When it comes to monkeypox, we must look to history

    Universal smallpox vaccination may not be necessary but complacency is not an option in viral outbreaks

  • Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
    Technology sector
    Digital enchantment holds too much sway over big tech regulation

    There is a critical balance to be struck between pushing boundaries while grasping that those limits exist for a reason

  • Tuesday, 10 May, 2022
    Medical science
    Clues but few answers in the childhood hepatitis mystery

    Lockdowns, adenoviruses, Covid and exposure to dogs have all been blamed for new cases around the world

  • Tuesday, 3 May, 2022
    Climate change
    Beware malaria risk from efforts to cool the planet

    The supposedly magic fix of solar geoengineering may have a dangerously uneven impact across the world

  • Wednesday, 27 April, 2022
    Nuclear energy4 min
    Making the heart of a star power the world | FT Rethink

    Generating a nuclear fusion reaction efficiently has proved impossible but, as Anjana Ahuja explains, we’ve recently seen some impressive breakthroughs

  • Tuesday, 26 April, 2022
    Science
    The dangers of lying to ourselves about the future

    Psychologists have found that we are more tolerant of falsehoods that may one day turn out to be true

  • Sunday, 17 April, 2022
    Pharmaceuticals sector
    Hasty approval for Alzheimer’s drug offers a cautionary tale

    FDA’s green light for aducanumab may delay development of more effective treatments for dementia, critics say

  • Friday, 8 April, 2022
    Science
    How stress ages both monkeys and humans

    There are two key drivers at play: inflammation and hormones

  • Sunday, 27 March, 2022
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Living with Covid does not mean pretending it no longer exists

    If we want lasting freedom from the virus, we must accept the need to continue mitigating its risks

  • Friday, 18 March, 2022
    Artificial intelligence
    The dark side of using AI to design drugs

    Scientists were horrified when an experiment produced thousands of new chemical killers in a few hours

  • Thursday, 10 March, 2022
    Coronavirus pandemic
    When do we declare the Covid pandemic over?

    Shutting off the siren of a global public health emergency is no simple matter

  • Wednesday, 9 February, 2022
    Covid-19 vaccines
    Malaria research holds lessons for childhood Covid vaccination

    ‘Rebound effect’ study adds nuance to debate over how best to protect younger children

  • Thursday, 27 January, 2022
    Renewable energy
    Space-based solar power beckons as a new frontier for humanity

    The US, UK and China are among those exploring the potential of an untapped source of clean energy

  • Tuesday, 18 January, 2022
    Coronavirus treatment
    Living with endemic Covid will not be painless

    Malaria is constantly present in many places — and still kills hundreds of thousands a year

  • Friday, 7 January, 2022
    Coronavirus treatment
    Lessons on how to live with Covid-19 are still to be learnt

    A pandemic is shaped not by a virus alone but by our collective response to it

  • Thursday, 16 December, 2021
    Space exploration
    Nasa’s all-or-nothing gamble on the Webb space telescope

    This is a time machine that will allow us to look back at our cosmic origins

  • Friday, 10 December, 2021
    Coronavirus treatment
    The Omicron paradox is starting to reveal itself

    Vaccine-induced antibodies can blunt the variant’s onslaught, but transmissibility remains alarming

  • Wednesday, 1 December, 2021
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Uncertainty about Omicron does not excuse inaction

    There is a narrow window for the world to put in place the lessons we learnt during the first phase of the pandemic

  • Monday, 22 November, 2021
    Space exploration
    Nudging an asteroid off course could one day save the world

    This week, humanity will for the first time set out to move an object in the solar system

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