Dr Peter Jones has spent the past 30 years immersed – quite literally – in bogs, fens and wetlands, trying to help save the planet and earning himself the nickname The Bogfather in the process. These landscapes are now at the forefront of the climate crisis and Jones has been making an offer that policymakers…
A Dutch virologist who has been honored for helping to advance the development of the Covid vaccine now finds himself under the microscope of U.S. federal investigators. The virologist, Dr. Vincent Munster, has been charged with conspiring to smuggle vials full of deactivated mpox and other biological materials into the United States in January, according…
J. Craig Venter, a scientist and entrepreneur who raced to decode the human genome, died on Wednesday in San Diego. He was 79. His death was announced by the J. Craig Venter Institute, a nonprofit research organization founded by Dr. Venter and based in San Diego and Rockville, Md. The institute said in a statement…
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One of my favourite pieces of scientific equipment is something called a retrospectroscope. I admit that it only exists in my imagination, but it has turned out to be a very useful bit of kit. It allows me to look back through the years of my life and analyse the journey so far. And what…
Science advances by proposing ideas and then trying to prove them wrong. This process becomes especially challenging when dealing with the Universe on its largest scales. Dark energy and dark matter are among the most difficult concepts to test. Observations across vast regions of space clearly suggest that something is influencing gravity in ways Einstein’s…
Andrew Hacker, a scholar of political science who wrote a host of provocative books on education, race relations and what he called a growing chasm between women and men, died on Tuesday at a hospital in Manhattan. He was 96. His wife, Claudia Dreifus, said the cause was complications of stomach cancer. To say that…
