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    • Wednesday, 29 March, 2023
      Brexit
      UK re-entry into EU Horizon programme threatened by cash dispute

      Britain seeks to reduce contributions to €95bn research network seen as vital by country’s scientists

    • Wednesday, 29 March, 2023
      Science
      UK’s 220-year-old Royal Institution seeks to reinstate itself as ‘home for science’

      London-based organisation hosted the announcement of many of the 19th century’s most important scientific discoveries

    • Tuesday, 28 March, 2023
      The Big Read
      China’s fake science industry: how ‘paper mills’ threaten progress

      The country has become a prolific producer of academic research but fraudulent studies risk serious real-world consequences

    • Monday, 20 March, 2023
      Climate change
      Global warming set to reach 1.5C in the near-term, UN reports

      Risks of warming and irreversible changes to the planet greater than thought in previous assessment in 2014

    • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
      UK Budget
      Computing and life sciences to benefit from UK financial and regulatory measures

      Chancellor Jeremy Hunt vows to make Britain the ‘best place in Europe’ for tech companies to invest

    • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
      Medical science
      High sucralose doses suppress immune system, research on mice shows

      Unexpected finding suggests popular sweetener could treat autoimmune conditions such as arthritis and diabetes

    • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
      Anjana Ahuja
      World-leading? Britain’s science sector has some way to go

      The country’s reputation is inflated by historic successes and relies on successful outliers

    • Wednesday, 8 March, 2023
      Genomics
      Cost of gene treatments for once incurable diseases too high, scientists warn

      Therapies based on editing of human genomes predicted to have a price tag of $2mn per patient

    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      Plastic pollution
      Plastic ingestion by humans and animals altering cells, scientists say

      Study identifies new stomach disease in seabirds caused by microplastics

    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      UK politics & policy
      Sunak holds back on rejoining Horizon after Brexit breakthrough

      Prime minister said to be ‘sceptical’ about value of research programme and cost of UK participation

    • Thursday, 2 March, 2023
      Climate change
      Wildfires in boreal forests release record levels of carbon, satellite study shows

      Burning trees across Eurasia and North America emitted 1.76bn tonnes of CO₂ in 2021

    • Monday, 27 February, 2023
      UK scientists hail prospect of Horizon re-entry after Brexit deal

      Researchers welcome EU Commission president’s pledge to begin work on accession accord

    • Thursday, 16 February, 2023
      ExplainerScience
      Spy balloons, sky clutter and UFOs: what flies in the ‘forgotten space’?

      Objects in the upper stratosphere are used for science, surveillance and communications

    • Thursday, 2 February, 2023
      Medical science
      Neural implants in rats pave way to treat brain injuries

      Neuroscience breakthrough demonstrates ability of human organoids to adopt functions of host’s visual cortex

    • Thursday, 26 January, 2023
      UK universities
      Lack of clinical academics threatens NHS research and teaching, say peers

      Shortage of doctors with university posts is putting health service on ‘dangerous precipice’

    • Wednesday, 18 January, 2023
      Anjana Ahuja
      Science is losing its ability to disrupt

      The decline in truly revolutionary research may have serious implications for humanity

    • Wednesday, 11 January, 2023
      UK politics & policy
      Minister sets out ‘science superpower’ ambitions for UK

      Government keeps EU research programmes in its sights but pushes ahead with other plans

    • Tuesday, 10 January, 2023
      Wellcome Trust
      Wellcome vows to boost spending even if endowment has to be tapped

      Charity’s chair Julia Gillard commits to £16bn investment in science and health over next decade

    • Wednesday, 14 December, 2022
      LexCamilla Palladino
      The Lex Newsletter: Fusion will be the next energy transition Premium content

      Commercial use is many years away but investors should start thinking through the implications now

    • Wednesday, 7 December, 2022
      World’s oldest DNA reveals thriving Arctic ecosystem 2mn years ago

      Scientists decode DNA preserved in Ice Age sediments in far north of Greenland

    • Saturday, 26 November, 2022
      Climate change
      Global floods and droughts will intensify sooner than expected, studies show

      El Niño and La Niña heating and cooling phenomena set to become stronger, warn scientists

    • Thursday, 10 November, 2022
      UK and Switzerland to sign research collaboration deal

      Two of Europe’s scientific powerhouses agree to work together after being excluded from the EU’s Horizon programme

    • Wednesday, 12 October, 2022
      Medical science
      Human-to-rat brain tissue implant boosts psychiatric disease research

      Stanford university experiments offer ‘exciting’ system for modelling disorders and neural development

    • Monday, 10 October, 2022
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      Eurofins scouts for acquisitions in Asia

      Company entered CAC40 last year thanks to pandemic but has been hit by falling demand

    • Monday, 3 October, 2022
      Nobel prizes
      Swedish geneticist wins Nobel prize for decoding DNA of human ancestors

      Svante Pääbo’s sequencing of the Neanderthal’s genome boosts understanding of evolution

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