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  • Sunday, 22 May, 2022
    Coronavirus economic impact
    Big Pharma lobbies for slice of G20 fund to prepare for next pandemic

    Industry says it will reserve production capacity for low- income nations for a fee if border bans are ended

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  • Friday, 20 May, 2022
    UK business & economy
    North of England university spinouts secure £215mn in funding deal

    Northern Gritstone aims to boost development of northern research hub to rival ‘Silicon Fen’ with latest investment round

  • Friday, 20 May, 2022
    Russell Foster
    Calculating the real cost of the graveyard shift

    Aligning work and healthcare with the body’s circadian cycles could bring revolutionary health benefits

  • Friday, 20 May, 2022
    Chinese economy
    China cuts mortgage lending rate by record as lockdowns hit economy

    Five-year loan prime rate slashed by most since before pandemic as government steps up stimulus

  • Friday, 20 May, 2022
    News in-depthNorth Korea
    Unvaccinated and unprepared, North Korea faces Covid catastrophe

    Pyongyang’s gamble on extreme isolation has unravelled as Omicron sweeps the country

  • Thursday, 19 May, 2022
    UK politics & policy
    UK’s autumn Covid booster campaign could exclude most Britons

    JCVI’s provisional guidance limits top-up jabs to over-65s, frontline health workers and vulnerable younger people

  • Thursday, 19 May, 2022
    Disease control and prevention
    US records first monkeypox case since virus reported in Europe

    Infections investigated in 7 countries as scientists explore possibility of community transmission

  • Wednesday, 18 May, 2022
    Robert Shrimsley
    A Brexit opportunity worth grasping

    The genetic technology bill is a moment to cheer new global benefits from the UK’s agricultural science research

  • Wednesday, 18 May, 2022
    Coronavirus pandemic
    How can Covid-19 affect the human brain?

    Scientists are trying to understand the cause of neurological effects and whether symptoms will be long-lasting

  • Wednesday, 18 May, 2022
    News in-depthTechnology
    US rushes to catch up with China in supercomputer race

    World’s biggest economies battle to dominate advanced processing power that will affect defence and climate modelling

  • Monday, 16 May, 2022
    News in-depthCoronavirus pandemic
    Residents and guards suffer on Beijing’s zero-Covid front line

    China’s strict policy puts citizens at mercy of unpredictable isolation orders as security camps outside

  • Monday, 16 May, 2022
    Scientific research
    How one professor moved his research to a new country — and took his laboratory, too

    Packing up a workspace is a huge task but one Oxford scientist did just that — and his team have now joined him in the Netherlands

  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
    Climate change
    Scientist alarmed by record carbon dioxide levels

    Primary driver of global warming is accelerating at ‘maximum speed’

  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
    Space exploration
    Astronomers release first image of supermassive black hole at centre of Milky Way

    Collapsed star located 25,000 light years from Earth identified using Event Horizon Telescope

  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
    North Korea
    Kim Jong Un orders lockdowns as North Korea confirms first Covid cases

    Isolated country has not vaccinated population, stoking worries about potential damage of outbreak

  • Wednesday, 11 May, 2022
    UK universities
    UK universities to get funding boost as research quality improves

    Strong performance in regions shows they can compete with higher ranked institutions

  • Tuesday, 10 May, 2022
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    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, 10 May, 2022
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    Elon Musk speaks to the FT

    Chief executive of Tesla and Space-X gives exclusive interview at Future of the Car conference

  • Tuesday, 10 May, 2022
    Coronavirus pandemic
    WHO chief warns that China’s zero-Covid strategy is not sustainable

    New modelling underscores country’s vulnerability because of faltering vaccination drive

  • Monday, 9 May, 2022
    Climate change
    World on course to breach global 1.5C warming threshold within five years

    Scientists believe it is increasingly likely that threshold will be crossed between now and 2026

  • Friday, 6 May, 2022
    FT MagazineTim Harford
    What nudge theory got wrong

    Is behavioural public policy a distraction from finding systemic solutions?

  • Friday, 6 May, 2022
    News in-depthSpace exploration
    Nasa tests new spacecraft to guard Earth against asteroid strikes

    Dart planetary defence mission will inform future response to Armageddon-style threats

  • Thursday, 5 May, 2022
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Coronavirus far deadlier than official count, WHO estimate suggests

    Health body says 15mn people died by the end of 2021, nearly three times official death toll

  • Thursday, 5 May, 2022
    Coronavirus pandemic
    ‘Stay vigilant’: no let-up in North Korea’s two-year Covid lockout

    Pyongyang claims to have avoided a big outbreak but experts warn its luck will eventually run out

  • Wednesday, 4 May, 2022
    Coronavirus treatment
    UK accused of leaving Covid immunocompromised ‘out to dry’

    Vulnerable people feel they are forgotten because of government’s ‘living with Covid’ strategy

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