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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, 9 August, 2022
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      Rich and poor should mingle more

      New research suggests that children from low-income families who are friends with wealthier peers will earn more later in life

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      P53 is the most studied protein in the human body, but researchers are expanding their horizons

    • Tuesday, 19 July, 2022
      Climate change
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      The heatwave accompanying the race to succeed Boris Johnson shows the reality of warnings

    • Wednesday, 13 July, 2022
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      The audacious gamble on the James Webb Space Telescope’s giant foldable mirror has paid off

    • Tuesday, 28 June, 2022
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      The global south has once again been abandoned in its quest for vaccines

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

    • Wednesday, 15 June, 2022
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      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
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      Differing individual development produces ambiguity in exactly the age range in which delicate judgments must be made

    • 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

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

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

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

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      Beware malaria risk from efforts to cool the planet

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    • Wednesday, 27 April, 2022
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      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
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      Psychologists have found that we are more tolerant of falsehoods that may one day turn out to be true

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

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    • Wednesday, 9 February, 2022
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      ‘Rebound effect’ study adds nuance to debate over how best to protect younger children

    • Thursday, 27 January, 2022
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      The US, UK and China are among those exploring the potential of an untapped source of clean energy

    • Tuesday, 18 January, 2022
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      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

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