Marc Ashdown Business correspondent Getty Images Areas like Newport in Wales, home to the UK’s biggest semiconductor manufacturing facility, will be allowed to decide how investment is targeted in their communities. An £86bn package for the science and technology sector will help fund research into drug treatments and longer-lasting batteries, the government has said ahead...
This story was originally reported by Shefali Luthra of The 19th. Meet Shefali and read more of her reporting on gender, politics and policy. Using flawed studies and scientific journal publications, abortion opponents are building a body of research meant to question the safety of the abortion pill mifepristone, a key target for the movement....
Letter from the Editor The anarchist response to the emergence of COVID-19 put divisions in the movement into stark relief. On the one hand, many recognized its severity and the resulting need for quarantine, social distancing, and vaccination. There was a strong moral imperative to protect those who were immunocompromised, elderly, or at heightened risk,...
You might be able to explain your “insights into oral chemesthetic perception” to a group of chemistry professors – but can you dance it? Dr. Sulo Roukka from the University of Helsinki can and he’s won a prize to prove it. The Dance your PhD competition was founded in 2008 aims to make complex research...
Criminal investigation into suspended Devon & Cornwall Police Chief Constable dropped Will Kerr to remain suspended while IOPC resumes previously paused conduct investigation and interim chief constable James Vaughan continues to lead force. Friday 25 April 2025 South West Water bills rise by a third following worst performance in sector with 550,000 hours of sewage...
The Met Office is set to sell its Exeter Science Park leasehold property including its supercomputer and an adjacent office building. A procurement tender for a commercial agent with data centre expertise to manage the disposal of the property within the terms of the Met Office leasehold at the ten year-old development site closed last...