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  • Wednesday, 4 October, 2023
    Nobel prizes
    ‘Quantum dot’ creators win Nobel Prize for chemistry

    Tiny semiconductor materials have wide-ranging uses in electronics, from display screens to medical technology

    Pictures of the three recipients are displayed on a large screen above three seated officials from the academy
  • Wednesday, 4 October, 2023
    Covid-19 vaccines
    Moderna reports trial success for dual Covid and flu vaccine

    Combined jab as effective as separate shots in early stage tests

    The Moderna Covid-19 vaccine is loaded into a syringe
  • Wednesday, 4 October, 2023
    Disease control and prevention
    Vaccine-like drug to prevent HIV ‘could be ready early next decade’

    UK drugmaker steps up investment in long-acting medication to protect those exposed to the virus

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  • Wednesday, 4 October, 2023
    Anjana Ahuja
    It’s up to governments to declutter space

    The Earth is encircled with decades-old litter. Who will take control?

    Andy Carter illustration of a man carrying the Earth globe away from cloud of flying space junk.
  • Tuesday, 3 October, 2023
    Nobel prizes
    Trio awarded Nobel physics prize for advances in electron dynamics

    Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier created ultra-short light pulses with applications in materials science

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  • Tuesday, 3 October, 2023
    News in-depthPfizer Inc
    Covid vaccine winners suffer reversal of fortune

    Companies have yet to provide investors with convincing post-pandemic strategies

    A montage of a nurse preparing a Covid-19 Pfizer vaccine, and the BioNTech and Moderna logos
  • Monday, 2 October, 2023
    Disease control and prevention
    WHO approves second malaria jab for children

    Oxford university shot expected to deliver ‘sufficient’ supply for all at-risk infants

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  • Monday, 2 October, 2023
    Nobel prizes
    Scientists whose work led to Covid mRNA vaccines win Nobel Prize

    Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman praised for role in ‘unprecedented rate of development’ of coronavirus jabs

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  • Friday, 29 September, 2023
    The best books of the week
    The infected blood scandal — and how it was allowed to happen

    Victims still await compensation from a case of shocking government indifference, professional malpractice and commercial greed

    A demonstrator wearing a black T-shirt emblazoned with the words ‘contaminated blood scandal’ — plus ‘They called us cheaper than chimps, thick, useful material, the great unwashed and virgin haemophiliacs’
  • Friday, 29 September, 2023
    Gardens
    How to control garden pests without using chemicals

    You can squash them, hunt them — or let predatory insects such as dragonflies and ladybirds do the dirty work for you

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  • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
    Anjana Ahuja
    ‘Inverse vaccines’ could turn autoimmune treatment upside down

    The latest findings build on experiments from over a century ago

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  • Monday, 25 September, 2023
    Coronavirus treatment
    Covid antiviral drug linked to ‘transmissible’ mutations, research finds

    Big-selling molnupiravir treatment produces permanent mutations that can be passed from patient to patient

    An experimental COVID-19 treatment pill, called molnupiravir
  • 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

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  • Sunday, 24 September, 2023
    Space exploration
    Nasa spacecraft brings samples from asteroid to Earth

    Scientists hope rocks and dust taken from 4.7bn-year-old Bennu will provide clues to formation of solar system

  • 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

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  • 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
  • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
    Technology
    Can AI help us speak to animals?

    Microphones and machine learning are being deployed to understand the non-human world

  • Monday, 18 September, 2023
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Heated debate — notable new books on climate and the environment

    Writers tackle themes such as the roles of capitalism and ideology in the future of the planet

  • Sunday, 17 September, 2023
    Coronavirus
    WHO chief pushes China for ‘full access’ to solve Covid’s origins

    Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says health body is ready to send second mission as Omicron variants drive rise in cases

    Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
  • Saturday, 16 September, 2023
    ExplainerNatural disasters
    Catastrophic Libyan flooding fuelled by warming oceans

    An intense cyclone known as a ‘medicane’ led to more than 400mm of rain falling in 24 hours

  • Saturday, 16 September, 2023
    ObituaryKaren Bakker
    Karen Bakker, scientist and author, 1971-2023

    Her boundary-pushing work on how animals communicate was just one part of her considerable legacy

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  • Friday, 15 September, 2023
    FT MagazineTim Harford
    The art of making good mistakes

    Neither organisations nor people can learn from their errors if they deny mistakes ever happened

  • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
    Aerospace & Defence
    Nasa signals turn to data-driven approach in search for UFOs

    US space agency may enlist ‘citizen scientists’ in drive to find out more about unexplained anomalous phenomena

    Gimbal is one of three US military videos of unidentified aerial phenomenon that has been through the official declassification review process of the United States government and has been approved for public release
  • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
    Special Report
    FT Health: Communicable Diseases

    Climate change helps the spread of infectious diseases. Plus: rise in fungal infections highlights risks of antimicrobial resistance; Sydney shows how to almost eliminate HIV transmission; wait goes on for effective Long Covid treatments

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  • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
    Special ReportFT Health: Communicable Diseases
    Wait goes on for effective long Covid treatments

    Unlike the vaccine race, there is limited funding to treat a condition that is often debilitating

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