• April 30 2025
  Climate change

  In climate science, the US is now a rogue state

  Failing to gather, preserve and acknowledge environmental data means less sight of what is inevitably ahead

  
• April 9 2025
  Agriculture

  We face a looming rice crisis

  The future of one of the world’s most important foodstuffs is mired in a stew of science, politics and economics

  
• April 2 2025
  Science

  How our social structures shape our DNA — and vice versa

  If society is shot through with genetic influences, how should social inequality be addressed?

  
• March 26 2025
  Biotech

  An ominous shadow falls over mRNA technology

  Once researchers begin wondering whether their government might pull the rug from under them, the damage is done

  
• March 12 2025
  Science

  It is time to abolish daylight saving

  Changing the clocks twice a year does not extend the light available to us

  
• March 5 2025
  Science

  Elon Musk is the fox in the henhouse of science

  The businessman’s central role in threatening American research has sparked protests in the UK’s Royal Society

  
• February 19 2025
  Scientific research

  Science suggests we should stop using ‘bird brain’ as a barb

  The gap between avian and mammalian cognition may be narrower than we think

  
• February 6 2025
  Science

  US scientists must resist Trump’s efforts to tear down research

  It is misguided for academics to pre-emptively self-censor, tempting though that may seem

  
• January 29 2025
  Science

  Build a global genetic database — ‘stolen’ children deserve it

  The science now exists to help parents and NGOs track down kids coercively adopted in wartime

  
• January 22 2025
  Science

  How to solve world hunger

  Averting a tragic mismatch between global food supply and demand requires moonshot ideas

  
• January 15 2025
  Climate change

  Fire and floods: the rise of climate whiplash

  We are mounting 20th-century responses to 21st-century weather

  
• January 8 2025
  Science

  New neutron science could explain our cosmic leftover status

  The world’s most powerful source of electrically neutral particles may help us understand why the universe exists

  
• December 10 2024
  UK society

  Our humdrum A-Z goes back further than we think

  An archaeological discovery in Syria may force a revision of the alphabet’s origin story

  
• November 27 2024
  Science

  On assisted dying, are we really any good at predicting survival?

  Forecasting the last seven days of life is harder than the final 24 hours; beyond that, things become shakier still

  
• November 20 2024
  US politics & policy

  The new Republican war on science

  Robert F Kennedy Jr’s appointment is characteristic of Trump’s hostility to expertise

  
• November 19 2024
  FT SeriesThe best books of the year 2024

  Best books of 2024: Sport, Health and Wellness

  Simon Kuper and Anjana Ahuja select their must-read titles

  
• November 13 2024
  Artificial intelligence

  Should we be fretting over AI’s feelings?

  Companies are racing to build machines that are more intelligent and more like us

  
• October 25 2024
  ReviewBooks

  The Impossible Man — the heavy price of life as a physics genius

  Black holes, space-time . . . Roger Penrose’s work won him a Nobel — but tore his family apart, as Patchen Barss reveals in a fascinating biography

  
• October 23 2024
  Environment

  Bringing the fungi kingdom out of the dark

  Scientists are pushing for its unique contribution to biodiversity to be recognised

  
• October 16 2024
  Science

  Diversity concerns cast a shadow over the science Nobels

  Failure to ensure wider representation challenges the perception of science as a merit-driven enterprise

  
• October 9 2024
  Disease control and prevention

  Marburg outbreak in Rwanda shows some post-pandemic progress

  It is too early to know whether the prompt response to the virus is enough to turn the tide

  
• October 2 2024
  Science

  ‘Evidence banks’ can drive better decisions in public life

  From climate change to crime, repositories of good quality information are essential

  
• September 17 2024
  Climate change

  A seismic hum signals a new era of climate uncertainty

  An enigmatic sound has shown that the frozen corners of the world are creaking — and in more ways than one

  
• September 11 2024
  Lucy Letby

  Statistics are still misunderstood in the courtroom

  As the inquiry into the Lucy Letby case begins, experts are querying the use of scientific evidence

  
• September 7 2024
  Science

  The science of falling in love

  Anthropologist Helen Fisher took her insights out of the laboratory and into online dating