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                Clive Cookson

                Science editor

                As FT science editor, Clive Cookson covers the whole span of science worldwide, from medicine and biology to physics and space exploration, including research funding and policy issues. He worked previously as science correspondent for BBC Radio. Clive was named British Science Journalist of the Year 2022.
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                • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
                  Environment
                  UK wildlife continues long-term decline in diversity and abundance

                  Comprehensive assessment finds little sign of overall improvement in health of Britain’s ecosystems

                  3 hours ago
                  Wistman’s Wood, a fragment of ancient temperate rainforest on Dartmoor, England
                • Sunday, 24 September, 2023
                  UK universities
                  Investment in UK university spinouts falls after decade of growth

                  Country’s biggest investor in businesses commercialising academic research calls for action to spur funding

                  Parkwalk chief Moray Wright
                • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
                  Mental health
                  Suppressing negative thoughts good for mental health, researchers find

                  Cambridge university study contradicts common belief in psychology that it is better to talk about distressing ideas and memories

                  An elderly woman dozes in the garden
                • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
                  Artificial intelligence
                  DeepMind uses AI to predict harmful genetic mutations in humans

                  First example of artificial intelligence helping to accelerate diagnosis of diseases caused by genetic variants

                  An artist’s illustration of how artificial intelligence can predict patterns in biology
                • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
                  Special ReportFT Health: Communicable Diseases
                  The microbiome: a benign infection to help keep disease at bay

                  Huge resources devoted to examining links with illness

                  A pair of hands holding a box of vials
                • Monday, 11 September, 2023
                  Artificial intelligence
                  UK researchers start using AI for air traffic control

                  Project Bluebird is looking at how artificial intelligence could reduce the environmental impact of aviation

                  NATS UK24 showing aircraft movements over the UK over a 24-hour period
                • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
                  Medical science
                  UK scientists develop 10-minute blood test to diagnose diseases

                  Finger-prick technology on mobile device can detect long Covid and Alzheimer’s

                  A health professional using the finger-prick blood test machine
                • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
                  UK politics
                  UK to rejoin EU Horizon research programme

                  Scientists and business welcome plan for Britain to go back into multilateral project

                  Scientist hands examining samples under a microscope
                • Monday, 4 September, 2023
                  Global Economy
                  Biodiversity body warns of $423bn annual hit from ‘invasive alien species’

                  Animals and plants that have been moved beyond natural habitats pose costly threat to farming, fishing and wildlife

                  Harlequin ladybirds
                • Wednesday, 30 August, 2023
                  ReviewFT Books Essay
                  Space odysseys — trips to discover the cosmos

                  Three books explore the future of galactic travel and the sights and experiences that await

                  A mass of clouds and starts in the sky
                • Saturday, 26 August, 2023
                  Science
                  Taking ‘bold’ bets: new UK agency prepares to fund breakthrough technologies

                  Head of Advanced Research and Invention Agency tells FT it has appointed directors charged with selecting projects

                  Ilan Gur, chief executive of Aria,
                • Wednesday, 23 August, 2023
                  ExplainerFukushima nuclear accident
                  How risky is Japan’s release of radioactive water from Fukushima?

                  Planned discharge from stricken nuclear plant has sparked international controversy, but most experts say it is safe

                  The plant surrounded by water tanks
                • Wednesday, 23 August, 2023
                  Neurotechnology
                  Brain implants give a voice to people who cannot speak

                  Scientists use electrodes and AI programs to turn thoughts into speech via a lifelike avatar

                  Ann looking at an avatar on a screen during the study
                • Tuesday, 22 August, 2023
                  Medical science
                  MRI scan better than blood test at spotting prostate cancer, study finds

                  Results could form basis of a screening programme for most common male tumour

                  A man lying down who is about to receive an MRI scan
                • Wednesday, 16 August, 2023
                  Medical science
                  Transplanted pig kidneys provide ‘life-sustaining’ functions in human for first time

                  Successful study advances prospects of xenotransplantation, using engineered organs from animals

                • Tuesday, 15 August, 2023
                  Neurotechnology
                  Pink Floyd strike a chord as scientists recreate song from brain activity

                  ‘Another Brick in the Wall’ study could help people with severe neurological damage to communicate

                  Montage featuring Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters and an excerpt of a musical score
                • Tuesday, 8 August, 2023
                  Climate change
                  Antarctica’s ‘staggering’ exposure to climate change worsens global threat

                  Study warns of need to protect region as rising temperatures create a ‘new world’ with far less ice

                  Melting icebergs on Horseshoe Island
                • Monday, 7 August, 2023
                  The Big Read
                  Missing ice and bleached coral: the sudden warming of the oceans

                  Record temperatures are causing disruptions and destruction to the world’s seas from Antarctica to Florida

                • Thursday, 3 August, 2023
                  Medical science
                  Bacteria in mosquito guts trialled as weapon against malaria

                  Scientists hail ‘entirely novel approach’ to controlling a disease that kills more than 600,000 a year

                  A demonstration of how to use a mosquito net
                • Tuesday, 1 August, 2023
                  Pharmaceuticals sector
                  Glasgow university spinout raises $43mn to ‘digitise chemistry’

                  Chemify’s technology aims to remove bottleneck of producing molecules in the lab

                  Chemify chief executive Professor Lee Cronin
                • Wednesday, 26 July, 2023
                  ExplainerWar in Ukraine
                  How big is the risk of nuclear disaster at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia plant?

                  Robust design and recent safety measures boost facility’s resilience despite seizure by Russia, experts say

                  A view of the Russia-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine
                • Tuesday, 25 July, 2023
                  Climate change
                  Global warming threatens collapse of Atlantic currents this century, new study finds

                  Shutdown of ocean flows would likely lead to more stormy winters and drier summers in Europe

                  A wide expanse of the sea
                • Wednesday, 19 July, 2023
                  Science
                  Sunak to push back decision on UK rejoining Horizon until after summer

                  Scientists’ hopes for end to delay on access to EU research programme look to be dashed

                  Glass vials in a laboratory
                • Monday, 17 July, 2023
                  Dementia
                  Eli Lilly drug shown to slow Alzheimer’s progression

                  Dementia experts hail ‘watershed moment’ after trial results for donanemab antibody treatment

                  Alzheimer’s patient brain scans, provided by Eli Lilly
                • Friday, 14 July, 2023
                  Medical science
                  Measles resurgence in London could infect thousands, warns health body

                  UK health security agency says low vaccination rates make capital vulnerable to a damaging outbreak

                  A nurse gives a pre-school booster and second dose of MMR immunisation jab to a girl, aged 3
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