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People aged 50 and over in

England

The research project involved a nationally representative group of people aged 50 and older, however respondents …

When Margaret Thatcher opened the Hadley Centre for Climate Change in 1990 journalists suggested she was attempting to appear to be doing something about global heating rather than implementing any policies.

Fast-forward 35 years and the Hadley Centre’s science is world-leading and

makes the claim that for …

China has begun recruiting for a planetary defence force after risk assessments determined that an asteroid could conceivably hit Earth in 2032.

Job ads posted online by China’s State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence (SASTIND) this week, sought young loyal graduates focused on aerospace engineering, international …

Political and business leaders descended on Paris this week for the third annual artificial intelligence summit with the technology causing tensions across the globe.

Emmanuel Macron, who opened the summit with a montage of deepfakes of himself, acknowledged AI’s potential to “disrupt”. A day later, the schism threatened by the …

The hundreds of stone circles, great and small, that dot the UK countryside inspire awe but there may be a temptation to regard them as wondrous relics of a long-gone age.

An exhibition at Britain’s most famous prehistoric site by three young artists makes the case that in these difficult …

For more than a decade Kazuhide Inoue has played an understated part in protecting the morals of adolescents in Fukuoka. Several times a year, the 73-year-old visits eight white “post boxes” installed in the city in western

Japan

Spicy, woody and sweet: it sounds like a description of a fancy air freshener. But researchers say the mix of aromas arise from something rather different: mummies.

Researchers have used both human noses and scientific instruments to probe how ancient Egyptian mummies smell today, and to what extent the odours …

The Norwegian parliament has voted to open up protected rivers to hydropower plants, prompting fury from conservation groups who fear for the fate of fish and other wildlife.

The bill allows power plants bigger than 1MW to be built in protected waterways if the societal benefit is “significant” and the …

My friend and former colleague Alan McCarthy, who has died aged 69 of cancer, was a microbiologist at Liverpool University and was also involved in the running of the Council for At-Risk Academics (Cara), a body that supports academics who have fled from their homelands as refugees.

He began …

Tim Radford, the Guardian’s former science editor, was the man who by his professionalism and enthusiasm made the paper take the subject seriously, perhaps for the first time.

Tim, who has died aged 84, was not the Guardian’s first specialist science correspondent and indeed he was appointed after working in …