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Research and development

May 2024

  • Larry Marshall

    US and China need ‘climate armistice’ to meet net zero, says former head of CSIRO

  • A cup of espresso and a cup of cappuccino

    Pass notes
    The synthetic coffee revolution: are ground date seeds really as delicious as the real thing?

April 2024

  • Students at a degree ceremony at Harvard University in Massachusetts.

    Chinese students in US tell of ‘chilling’ interrogations and deportations

    As tensions with China rise, scientists at America’s leading universities complain of stalled research after crackdown at airports

February 2024

  • A water battery developed by researchers at RMIT in Melbourne.

    Battery life
    Greener ‘water batteries’ a step closer thanks to breakthrough by Melbourne researchers

    RMIT team develops method that could replace common lead-acid batteries, offering a safer and more recyclable alternative

December 2023

  • A Uyghur woman through a street silhouetted against the light

    Academic paper based on Uyghur genetic data retracted over ethical concerns

  • Evidence of Alzheimer’s disease on Pet scans.

    New Alzheimer’s drugs bring hope of slowing disease for UK patients

September 2023

  • A scientist holding a laptop examining plants in a greenhouse

    What does rejoining EU’s Horizon scheme mean for UK research and innovation?

    Scientists relieved they can once again apply for funding from world’s largest such programme after three-year hiatus

July 2023

  • Robot Sophia at the AI For Good summit in Geneva on 6 July.

    Apocalypse not now? AI’s benefits may yet outweigh its very real dangers

    A new Cambridge University institute will try to harness the good and anticipate the bad effects of artificial intelligence

June 2023

  • The tsetse fly

    Flies like blue objects because they mistake colour for food, scientists say

    Finding may help fight against diseases spread by flies and make traps more effective

May 2023

  • Close-up of a hand using a pulse oximeter to check blood oxygen saturation level and heart rate

    AI poses existential threat and risk to health of millions, experts warn

    BMJ Global Health article calls for halt to ‘development of self-improving artificial general intelligence’ until regulation in place

March 2023

  • A Novartis sign

    Novartis scraps cholesterol drug trial in blow to UK life sciences ambitions

    Swiss firm’s withdrawal from Leqvio trial with NHS dents government plans to attract post-Brexit research and investment
  • Emmie Lucassen-Reijnders

    Other lives
    Emmie Lucassen-Reijnders obituary

    Other lives: Research scientist whose expertise was in theoretical surface chemistry
  • Larry Elliott

    Economics viewpoint
    Want to properly plug the UK’s north-south divide? Look to Germany

    Larry Elliott
    Boosting spending power, increasing public funding for science and tech skills, R&D and infrastructure could work

February 2023

  • Emma Walmsley, pictured arriving for a meeting in Downing Street in 2017,

    GSK boss warns UK life sciences at ‘tipping point’ despite Sunak’s R&D pledge

    Emma Walmsley says ambition to be pharma superpower at risk unless improvements made in key areas

January 2023

  • Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham talks on the stage with editor-in-chief of the Guardian Katherine Viner (not pictured) during Labour's annual conference in Liverpool

    The Guardian view on Greater Manchester’s Atom Valley plan: growth outside the city

  • Oldham view

    Atom Valley: Andy Burnham’s vision for regenerating Greater Manchester

November 2022

  • Clockwise: Macro of pea microgreen roots growing, Mussels on rock , a duck leads her ducklings, a magnified view of dragonfly wing and a chameleon.

    The age of extinction
    Velcro, bullet trains and robotic arms: how nature is the mother of invention

    Many of the world’s most inspiring solutions have been created by scientists who stole their ideas from the natural world

October 2022

  • A worker in a protective suit operates machinery

    UK investment in R&D plunges in blow to ‘science superpower’ plan

    IPPR says extra £62bn a year needed to match global leader Israel after sharp decline since 2014

September 2022

  • Hand turning a doorknob.

    Japanese professor wins Ig Nobel prize for study on knob turning

  • China’s President Xi Jinping, centre, tours Imperial College London with Prince Andrew and former chancellor George Osbourne on a state visit in 2015.

    Imperial College to shut joint research ventures with Chinese defence firms

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