Huge story for the UK - FT scoop here on AstraZeneca in talks to combine with US rival Bristol Myers Squibb. AZN is the second biggest listed UK company and would be the bigger party in a deal. But could it redomicile to the US as part of a deal? www.ft.com/content/e902...
AstraZeneca holds talks with Bristol Myers Squibb over $400bn tie-up
Deal would create world’s fourth-largest drugmaker by market value
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More UK June heat records may fall today. Here’s my FT piece this week on heatwaves, 1976, adaptation, melting infrastructure and the new abnormal. www.ft.com/content/f059...
Heatwave shows we are marinating in a crisis of our own making
Political inaction in the battle against climate change is costly and getting costlier
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A great honour to win this. Thank you @absw for being the backbone of our community and gratitude to the Financial Times for supporting me to write columns that matter. 💪🏽
ABSW@absw.bsky.social · last mo.#ABSWawards 🏆And the winner of the News Analysis of the Year is... Anjana Ahuja, "The Science of Starvation", Financial Times 🔗 zurl.co/7yjAL Judges say: "A measured, sobering look at studies since the 1940s." @anjahuja.bsky.social @financialtimes.com zurl.co/1pQTX
An athlete’s second life: I went to Marseille to tell the story of how footballer Mathieu Flamini became an environmental chemistry entrepreneur. www.ft.com/content/6218...
Elite sportsman. Entrepreneur. What drives Mathieu Flamini?
The midfielder who co-founded a biochemicals business on the difference between the locker room and the boardroom
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an insight here in the risks of journalism in the US at the moment www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/b...
First, the F.B.I. Searched Her Home. Then, She Won a Pulitzer.
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Martin Wolf really does not like cruises - comment here from under a column by @anjahuja.bsky.social on the suspected outbreak of hantavirus on one ship www.ft.com/content/9e2d...
Donald Trump's green new deal My latest column for @financialtimes.com: The US president has inadvertently raised the appeal of renewable energy across the world: as.ft.com/r/ac96a71b-a...
Or, as I would have headlined it if I hadn’t been overruled: How Trump Went to War with Bush Over US Science Spoiler: not *that* Bush
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 3mo agoIt’s never a good idea to sack the entire National Science Board ft.trib.al/EMDN6bE | opinion
It’s just a piece of ice, right? Errr, no. Ice has memory, as I write in the Financial Times this week. With thanks to Dr Amy King from British Antarctic Survey, for explaining the secrets locked inside ice that can be millions of years old. www.ft.com/content/b60a...
Ancient ice’s secrets can give us a look into the future
The frozen areas of our planet act as a historical record of changes in the atmosphere and climate
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NEW: A robot hand that can detach, crawl and grasp multiple objects - and could be an industrial boon. One researcher compares it to the helpful disembodied hand Thing T Thing from The Addams Family, rather than the scary spider-like enforcers of Minority Report. www.ft.com/content/39d6...
Excellent, damning analysis of the video of the killing of Ms Good, from the NYT, including a quick debunking of the “evidence” the President showed other Times reporters last night. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
An analysis of footage from three camera angles shows that the motorist was driving away from — not toward — a federal officer when he opened fire.
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Anti-obesity drugs are great for losing weight. But new research finds that when users stop taking them, they tend to regain the weight and lose other health benefits - and it happens fast. How do health authorities deal with this as millions come off the medicines? www.ft.com/content/10f8...
Obesity drug users will regain weight two years after ending medication, review finds
Experts say health authorities need plans to deal with people coming off medicines such as Ozempic and Wegovy
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Happy new year, folks! My take on Greenland for the FT: a slippery showman, the Napoleonic wars and why, contrary to belief, the island is no minerals Nirvana. www.ft.com/content/355e...
Greenland is not the mining gem some think it is
The island is geologically analogous to Canada and countries in northern Europe
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UK set to rejoin EU’s flagship student exchange programme ft.trib.al/cknsETr
UK set to rejoin EU’s flagship student exchange programme
Britain expected to return to Erasmus+ scheme as part of reset of relations with the bloc
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NEW: Our three-part podcast Defying Death follows the quest to live longer from ancient times to today's frontier technologies. Great to work with the wonderful @hannahkuchler.bsky.social, @flophillips.bsky.social, @joshgd100.bsky.social & the rest of the FT pod team. www.ft.com/content/a33d...
Defying death: The origins of ageing
Why do we age? Can it be stopped?
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My FT column today on the @harva.edu ‘super-elite’ taking on the world’s greatest unsolved scientific problems. Harvard is betting on their cohort of the curious, rather than the merely clever, to be winning Nobels 10-15 years from now. www.ft.com/content/b5cc...
For scientists, the right questions are often the hardest
The most difficult problems can nurture the most talented researchers
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NEW: A sign of the scientific times as the UK scales back collaboration with China. Science minister Lord Vallance says the two countries have agreed to work together in the “uncontroversial” areas of health, climate, planetary sciences and agriculture. www.ft.com/content/edc0...
UK scales back scientific collaboration with China
Science minister says countries have agreed to work together in ‘uncontroversial’ areas such as health and climate
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NEW: Companies selling products that claim to boost health and longevity see a historic opportunity under the Trump administration. Senior officials have ties to those industries - and health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr is a fan of “wellness” supplements and therapies. www.ft.com/content/ed42...
US ‘wellness’ industry scents opportunity to go mainstream
Supplement manufacturers position themselves to exploit the Trump administration’s openness to fringe science
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How safe are UK research institutions from politicisation? @chrischirp.bsky.social & have have written a new blog for LSE on our report blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
How safe are UK research institutions from politicisation? - Impact of Social Sciences
New research finds the arm's length bodies that underpin UK research run the risk of politicisation unless they are put on a firmer footing.
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NEW: The extraordinary story of an eye implant to help people blinded by age-related retinal damage read again. One person improved by almost 12 lines of a standard eye test chart. Register here to read some FT articles free: www.ft.com/register www.ft.com/content/c2e8...
Scientists invent eye implant to help blind patients see again
Device improves vision of people suffering from advanced macular degeneration
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Massive crowds gather across US for ‘No Kings’ protests against Trump on.ft.com/3JlrmQR
Massive crowds gather across US for ‘No Kings’ protests against Trump
Republicans decry demonstrations as ‘anti-American’ as people voice opposition to administration’s hardline policies
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The nutrient spermidine is at the heart of a growing battle about health products touted as having anti-ageing effects. Its promoters cite evidence that it helps extend lifespan in animals - but sceptics point to the lack of research in humans. www.ft.com/content/7282...
How one supplement sums up the uneasy science of selling youth
The potential anti-ageing effects of molecule spermidine have attracted longevity researchers and the wellness industry
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OpenAI is spending at a scale that even Silicon Valley can't quite believe, buying up 20 nuclear reactors' worth of computing power this year. But there are big questions around whether it can turn that power into profit. An #FTEdit 🧵on the ChatGPT maker’s $1tn bet on artificial intelligence 👇
Freshers' Flu, the seasonal viruses that pray on vulnerable students. Great to work with @joshelgin.bsky.social and @sheencr.bsky.social on this piece for BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Freshers' flu: Why is it so hard for students to dodge?
It's not the actual flu, and it's rarely serious, but when thousands of students arrive on campus they bring a cocktail of viruses.
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This is a beautiful tribute to an amazing person who truly revolutionised our understanding of non-human animals.
Tony Tassell@tonytassell.bsky.social · 10mo agoOne of Jane Goodall's last interviews here www.ft.com/content/9600...
On 15th Sept, billionaire & Royal Society fellow Elon Musk called for political & interethnic violence, to pre-empt (ie, begin) a civil war. ("Whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you. You either fight back or you die."). A fortnight later, the Society expresses its disapproval
The Royal Society@royalsociety.org · 10mo ago"I am increasingly concerned over threats to the values that allow science to flourish." Read the full statement from the President of the Royal Society Sir Adrian Smith: royalsociety.org/news/2025/10...
