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    • Thursday, 7 December, 2023
      Climate change
      Global carbon emissions from fossil fuels to hit record this year

      Latest research shows goals of Paris accord are increasingly in jeopardy as almost 200 countries gather at COP28

      Haze obscures the Dubai skyline including Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building on December 4, 2023. The United Arab Emirates is choking under “alarmingly high” air pollution levels fed by its fossil fuel industry, Human Rights Watch warned on December 4, as the oil-rich country hosts the UN’s COP28 climate talks in Dubai. (Photo by Giuseppe CACACE / AFP) (Photo by GIUSEPPE CACACE/AFP via Getty Images)
    • Monday, 4 December, 2023
      Disrupted Times
      Failure to approve further US aid could ‘kneecap’ Kyiv

      Also in this newsletter: the UK’s ‘sprained ankle’, German gloom deepens, gold hits record.

      Shalanda Young
    • Monday, 4 December, 2023
      InterviewBrexit
      UK to launch PR blitz to lure scientists back into Horizon programme

      Science secretary Michelle Donelan signs post-Brexit deal to rejoin €96bn research scheme

      Michelle Donelan in Brussels today
    • Monday, 4 December, 2023
      Quantum technologies
      IBM claims quantum computing research milestone

      Use of technology to solve scientific problems still falls short of commercialisation

      Dario Gil, IBM’s head of research
    • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
      Special ReportManaging Climate Change
      ‘It looks like we’ve lost control’ of our ice sheets

      Scientists warn on the rate of melting — and say research into mitigating the impact is needed

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    • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
      Genomics
      Britain’s genetic databank to unveil largest-ever sequencing release

      ‘Treasure trove’ will be used to develop drugs and treatments for wide range of diseases and is culmination of 20 years of work

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    • Wednesday, 29 November, 2023
      Deepmind Technologies Ltd
      Google DeepMind researchers use AI tool to find 2mn new materials

      Work shows power of AI to improve real-world technology in fields from renewable energy to advanced computation

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    • Wednesday, 29 November, 2023
      Ageing Populations
      Science prize targets health advances for ageing societies

      Non-profit offers $101mn for discoveries that will restore muscle, brain and immune functions

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    • Wednesday, 29 November, 2023
      Anjana Ahuja
      How (not) to do science in a crisis

      It is a way of thinking that is open to the curious, not a boxful of unchanging truths only for the initiated

      Andy Carter illustration of a scientist and a politician holding off a huge hurricane, closing it together as if it were curtains
    • Tuesday, 28 November, 2023
      ExplainerClimate Capital
      Climate change A to Z: an FT jargon buster

      A guide to commonly used terminology in the climate change discussion

    • Tuesday, 28 November, 2023
      National Health Service
      NHS cancer services buckling, warns leading charity

      Cancer Research UK report says UK government must invest in staffing and funding for research

    • Tuesday, 28 November, 2023
      Mental health
      Internet use does not appear to harm mental health, study finds

      No evidence to support ‘popular ideas that certain groups are more at risk’, according to researchers

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    • Monday, 27 November, 2023
      Alice Gast
      Rare cancers need a Silicon Valley approach to investment

      Innovative models can drive funding for research on neglected, less survivable diseases

      Protein analysis tubes are seen in a lab at the Institute of Cancer Research in Sutton
    • Sunday, 26 November, 2023
      InterviewBayer AG
      Bayer chief blames thin drug pipeline on ‘years of under-investment’

      Bill Anderson says group is generating a series of promising new drugs after R&D strategy change

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    • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
      Disease control and prevention
      WHO asks China for data on ‘undiagnosed pneumonia’ cases

      Health body’s concern reflects heightened vigilance over signs of disease outbreaks since Covid pandemic

      Children and their parents wait to be seen at a children’s hospital in Beijing
    • Wednesday, 22 November, 2023
      Autumn Statement
      AI and quantum research at centre of science and tech announcements

      Government to boost spending on computing power by £500mn to develop artificial intelligence

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    • Wednesday, 22 November, 2023
      Anjana Ahuja
      There is an epidemic of scientific fraud

      Rooting out manipulation should not depend on dedicated amateurs who take personal legal risks for the greater good

    • Monday, 20 November, 2023
      Bayer AG
      Bayer shares plunge after blood-thinning drug trial halted

      German group says prospective blockbuster asundexian failed to demonstrate efficacy

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    • Monday, 20 November, 2023
      News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
      In maps: half of northern Gaza’s buildings wrecked by war

      Radar data shows Israel’s six-week offensive against Hamas has left much of the Palestinian enclave in ruins

      Montage of Israeli soldiers in a vehicle next to damaged buildings in Gaza and map of Gaza
    • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
      Non-Fiction
      ‘Thrillingly told’ account of Canadian wildfire scoops Baillie Gifford prize

      ‘Fire Weather’ named winner of UK’s leading award for non-fiction at ceremony in London

      John Vaillant, writer of ‘Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World’
    • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
      Artificial intelligence
      AI boosts breast cancer detection rates, new research shows

      Study shows potential of technology to improve and speed up medical diagnoses

      Microscopic photo of a professionally prepared slide demonstrating breast tissue with ductal carcinoma: AI analysis flagged up to 13 per cent more cases than doctors had identified
    • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
      Medical science
      UK approves Crispr gene editing therapy in global first

      Regulator authorises treatment for sickle cell disease and beta thalassaemia

      A scientist at Vertex Pharmaceuticals
    • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
      FT SeriesBest books of the year 2023
      Best books of 2023 — Science

      Clive Cookson selects his must-read titles

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    • Wednesday, 15 November, 2023
      Biotech
      Biotech raises funds to find cancer treatments using transgenic mice

      T-Therapeutics hopes to use genetically engineered rodents and machine learning to discover drugs

      Allan Bradley, founder of T-Therapeutics
    • Wednesday, 15 November, 2023
      FT SeriesTech Champions
      Airfinity gives decision makers big picture on health

      Covid may have abated, but emerging diseases and new drug categories are keeping the analytics firm busy

      Portrait of Airfinity founder Rasmus Bech Hansen
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