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                • Friday, 22 July, 2022
                  Space exploration
                  The future of space exploration belongs to robots and billionaires

                  We may be nostalgic about astronauts but our scientific abilities have leapfrogged our physical ones

                  Montage of images of the Moon, the Mars rover, the James Webb Space Telescope and an astronaut’s feet on the moon
                • Thursday, 28 April, 2022
                  John Thornhill
                  Robots in rockets outperform ‘spam in a can’ astronauts

                  The cost of launching humans into space is hard to justify as unmanned trips get faster, cheaper and safer

                  Astronaut Buzz Aldrin walking on the surface of the Moon in July 1969
                • Monday, 21 February, 2022
                  UK politics
                  After Covid, Britain must learn to plan properly for extreme risk

                  The current system dooms the UK to remain perpetually unprepared

                  A covid test centre worker with the signs for biohazards, nuclear hazard and other potential causes of catastrophe
                • Thursday, 15 July, 2021
                  Special ReportDelivering for the World’s Children
                  How to build a better, fairer, greener, safer world for children

                  Voters and scientists must ensure politicians prioritise long-term measures to save our Earthly home

                  Teaching in Baigai, northern Cameroon, using Unicef’s solar-powered satellite internet pilot scheme
                • Friday, 12 October, 2018
                  FT Books Essay
                  Can humanity survive the future?

                  Cosmologist Martin Rees argues we must be guided by values beyond science if we are to thrive in a world of AI

                  A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket exits the atmosphere for a cargo re-supply mission to the International Space Station, over Cape Canaveral, Florida, June 2018
                • Thursday, 23 February, 2017
                  Anjana Ahuja
                  Planetary discoveries remind humans of their cosmic place

                  An ultra-cool dwarf star carries the whiff of a jackpot of extraterrestrial life

                  UNSPECIFIED:  In this NASA digital illustration handout released on February 22, 2017, an artist's concept allows us to imagine what it would be like to stand on the surface of the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1f, located in the TRAPPIST-1 system in the constellation Aquarius. Because this planet is thought to be tidally locked to its star, meaning the same face of the planet is always pointed at the star, there would be a region called the terminator that perpetually divides day and night. If the night side is icy, the day side might give way to liquid water in the area where sufficient starlight hits the surface. One of the unusual features of TRAPPIST-1 planets is how close they are to each other -- so close that other planets could be visible in the sky from the surface of each one. In this view, the planets in the sky correspond to TRAPPIST1e (top left crescent), d (middle crescent) and c (bright dot to the lower right of the crescents). TRAPPIST-1e would appear about the same size as the moon and TRAPPIST1-c is on the far side of the star. The star itself, an ultra-cool dwarf, would appear about three times larger than our own sun does in Earth's skies.
									The system has been revealed through observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope as well as other ground-based observatories, and the ground-based TRAPPIST telescope for which it was named after. (Photo digital Illustration by NASA/NASA via Getty Images)
                • Monday, 28 March, 2016
                  Nick Butler
                  Climate, weather and the politics of energy
                • Monday, 20 July, 2015
                  UK economy
                  Search for alien life receives $100m boost

                  Silicon Valley entrepreneur Yuri Milner donates funds to hunt for extraterrestrial intelligence

                  Entrepreneur Yuri Milner, cosmologist Stephen Hawking and UK Astronomer Royal Lord Rees announce the relaunched search for extraterrestrial intelligence at a press conference in London on Monday
                • Friday, 21 March, 2014
                  Harry Eyres
                  Defender of the faith

                  ‘Secular society underestimates the power of religion, which has great positive energy’

                • Monday, 4 November, 2013
                  Life & Arts
                  Lucy Hughes-Hallett’s The Pike wins Samuel Johnson prize
                • Friday, 18 October, 2013
                  FT Magazine
                  Martin Rees – Out of this world

                  Britain’s ‘top scientist’ says our brains may not yet have evolved sufficiently to unlock the secrets of the cosmos

                  Martin Rees photographed at the Royal Society in London in August
                • Tuesday, 7 August, 2012
                  ObituaryWorld
                  Great visionary leader of science dies

                  Sir Bernard Lovell was a pioneering radio-astronomer

                • Saturday, 17 March, 2012
                  Life & Arts
                  The Diary: Jan Dalley

                  The FT’s arts editor on asking about a stranger’s art collection, attending a talkathon and a memorial for Vaclav Havel

                • Friday, 28 October, 2011
                  ReviewLife & Arts
                  Reinventing Discovery

                  Michael Nielsen argues that online collaboration is changing the scientific landscape

                • Friday, 29 July, 2011
                  FT Magazine
                  The Inventory: Martin Rees

                  ‘The fortunate in this unequal world should be motivated by guilt and shame’

                • Wednesday, 6 April, 2011
                  UK schools
                  UK astronomer wins Templeton prize
                • Tuesday, 7 September, 2010
                  US states of emergency
                  Britain cannot afford to save on science

                  The financial crisis has not prevented countries such as the US from investing, writes Martin Rees

                • Friday, 3 September, 2010
                  Life & Arts
                  Cosmology enters a golden age
                • Thursday, 11 February, 2010
                  Climate change
                  UEA widens its ‘climategate’ scandal probe
                • Tuesday, 16 December, 2008
                  Climate change
                  Chu appointment delights energy campaigners
                • Sunday, 28 September, 2008
                  UK economy
                  Royal Society fund gains £5m boost
                • Sunday, 14 September, 2008
                  Nick Butler
                  Carbon capture stations must not be delayed
                • Wednesday, 18 October, 2006
                  London fights for its future
                  Scepticism for European technology institute
                • Tuesday, 18 July, 2006
                  World
                  Scientists urge Bush not to use veto power
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