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  • Wednesday, 15 June, 2022
    Anjana Ahuja
    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

  • Friday, 10 June, 2022
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    Drive to identify emerging viruses that pass from animals to humans comes amid fears over spread of monkeypox

  • Wednesday, 1 June, 2022
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    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

  • Friday, 27 May, 2022
    UK signs first post-Brexit life science agreement with Sweden

    Countries commit to deepen scientific ties after EU exit leaves Britain outside European research programme

  • Wednesday, 18 May, 2022
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    World’s biggest economies battle to dominate advanced processing power that will affect defence and climate modelling

  • Monday, 16 May, 2022
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    Collapsed star located 25,000 light years from Earth identified using Event Horizon Telescope

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    Hotspots for viral transmission among animals are projected to overlap with densely populated urban areas

  • Thursday, 7 April, 2022
    Imperial College reinforces European links with French partnership

    Threat of UK exclusion from EU research may prompt other universities to establish bilateral links

  • Wednesday, 9 March, 2022
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    Ernest Shackleton’s lost ship ‘Endurance’ found after more than a century

    Scientists locate remarkably well-preserved vessel 3,000 metres underwater off the coast of Antarctica

  • Monday, 7 March, 2022
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    Scientists identify genetic factors behind severe Covid

    Sixteen genes that predispose people to critical illness pinpointed in world’s largest study of its kind

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  • Tuesday, 8 February, 2022
    Scientists campaign for UK and Switzerland to join EU programme

    Excluding colleagues from Horizon Europe over political disputes is ‘sadomasochistic’

  • Sunday, 6 February, 2022
    UK politics & policy
    UK sets out £6bn plan B science fund if EU blocks association with Horizon

    Science minister says joining EU’s main research and innovation funding programme is still preferred

  • Thursday, 3 February, 2022
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    VB variant is highly virulent and transmissible but responsive to antiretroviral therapy, study shows

  • Wednesday, 19 January, 2022
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    Departure of Hal Barron comes as pharma group faces pressure to revive drug pipeline

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    Scientists identify animals by extracting DNA samples from air

    Studies at zoos in UK and Denmark could lead to new ways of monitoring biodiversity

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    Samsung and Harvard researchers seek to replicate the mind’s complex network of neurons and synapses

  • Friday, 17 December, 2021
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    Weekend emergency meeting of ministers set to look at ‘pretty bleak’ data after third record day of new cases

  • Tuesday, 30 November, 2021
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    ‘The world is watching South Africa’: health experts sift Omicron clues

    Scientists search for more information on heavily mutated variant spreading round the world

  • Tuesday, 23 November, 2021
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  • Thursday, 21 October, 2021
    UK Budget
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    Science and industry leaders warn on 2024-5 backtracking in Budget spending review

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