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  • Saturday, 7 December, 2024
    The Big Read
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    Bureaucrats, billionaire donors, artisans and builders united to deliver a national project at a time of political strife

    View from the ceiling of Notre Dame looking down the nave, which is full of people, towards the altar
  • Thursday, 28 November, 2024
    ExplainerIsrael-Hamas war
    The Israel-Hamas war in maps and charts

    A visual guide to the conflict and its regional impact, including in Lebanon

  • Monday, 25 November, 2024
    The Big Read
    Can Europe defend itself without America?

    The continent will have to spend more as Trump refocuses policy elsewhere. But replacing US military heft will not be easy

    A Polish soldier holds a Nato flag during a ceremony in Warsaw on March 12 commemorating the 25th anniversary of Poland joining Nato. The photo is superimposed on the background of a faded US flag
  • Wednesday, 20 November, 2024
    Visual story
    Are the robots finally coming?

    Advances in physical AI means machines are learning skills previously thought impossible

    Blueprint-style illustration of a robot with an extended arm and mechanical hand against a background grid, highlighting technical details and robotic components
  • Monday, 18 November, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Scholz under growing pressure to send long-range missiles to Ukraine

    US decision to allow Kyiv to use Atacms on Russian targets heaps pressure on German chancellor to send Tauruses

    Taurus missile and Olaf Scholz; Atacms and Joe Biden
  • Monday, 18 November, 2024
    Nuclear energy
    Rolls-Royce sets sights on providing nuclear power to space missions

    UK aerospace and engineering group in early talks over commercial opportunities for planned technology

    Spectators watch as the Artemis I unmanned lunar rocket lifts off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on November 16 2022
  • Monday, 18 November, 2024
    The Big Read
    Offshore oil is back. At what cost?

    Years after one of the worst spills in history, companies in search of new discoveries are drilling even deeper into the seabed

    Montage of images. The new Vito platform against a background of a graphic showing the different types of oil rigs and platforms
  • Tuesday, 12 November, 2024
    Nuclear energy
    Nuclear fusion start-up claims milestone with unconventional reactor

    Design by New Zealand’s OpenStar levitates a giant magnet inside a cloud of superheated plasma

    OpenStar team members assemble the superconducting magnet
  • Tuesday, 15 October, 2024
    Middle East war
    Israel races to supply anti-missile shield

    Intense war demands have left IDF relying on US to fill gaps in air defences

    A soldier stands by a missile launcher
  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    Science
    Map of adult insect’s brain offers clues on neurological diseases

    International collaboration plotted 149 metres of biological wiring in fruit fly

    Caption: The fruit fly connectome contains a wide range of information, from cell types and synapses to neurotransmitters and network properties. Here, cells are color-coded by their defining chemical messenger. Blue: GABA; yellow: acetylcholine (ACH); pink: glutamate (GLUT).
  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    The Big Read
    Can Eli Lilly become the first $1tn drugmaker?

    The company is thriving as weight-loss drugs boom, but investors see warning signs it has reached ‘peak enthusiasm’

    Montage image of David Ricks, chief executive of Eli Lilly, Zepbound medication and a building with the company’s logo on it
  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2024
    News in-depthMiddle East war
    How Israel’s air defences withstood Iran’s barrage

    Tehran claims success but early Israeli assessment suggests attack caused few hits and no casualties

    Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepts rockets, as seen from Ashkelon, Israel, October 1, 2024
  • Tuesday, 24 September, 2024
    News in-depthWar in Ukraine
    Dither and deliver: Kyiv navigates Putin’s red lines — and western indecision

    Potentially allowing Ukraine to use long-range missiles on targets in Russia is latest in a series of ‘salami tactics’

    Putin with: Storm Shadow missiles on jet; ATACMS missile, Ukrainian soldier, nuclear symbol
  • Tuesday, 24 September, 2024
    The Big Read
    How tackling TB could help win the war on superbugs

    The lessons learnt from drug-resistant tuberculosis offer a path to beating back the ‘silent pandemic’ of antimicrobial resistance

    background: tuberculosis mycobacterium. foreground: Indian doctor with x-ray of patient diagnosed with TB
  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    The Big Read
    Brazil wants to be a climate champion and an oil giant. Can it be both?

    Lula has staked his international reputation on the environment, but he must also find the money to alleviate poverty at home

    Montage image of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, oil rigs and forests
  • Tuesday, 10 September, 2024
    The Big Read
    How Sudan’s devastating civil war became a global battleground

    With 150,000 dead and millions displaced, Russia, Iran and the UAE are jockeying for influence.

    A man in camouflage fatigues carrying a weapon walks between burnt-out vehicles in the streets of Omdurman
  • Tuesday, 3 September, 2024
    News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
    Netanyahu doubles down on Gaza strategy as he seeks to ride out latest storm

    Israeli prime minister remains defiant over hostage deal with Hamas despite general strike and mass protests

    A montage featuring Benjamin Netanyahu against a background of an image of Israeli protesters
  • Sunday, 25 August, 2024
    News in-depthMiddle East war
    How all-out war between Israel and its adversaries might play out

    Military capabilities of the Jewish state have evolved since it last fought Hizbollah but so have those of the Iran-backed ‘axis of resistance’

  • Saturday, 24 August, 2024
    ExplainerMaritime accidents and safety
    What caused the fatal sinking of the superyacht Bayesian?

    Disaster off Sicily on Mike Lynch’s family yacht raises concerns over marine safety in era of extreme weather events

    Bayesian yacht, map of where it sank and Italian coastguard
  • Wednesday, 21 August, 2024
    News in-depthClimate Capital
    Water emergency becomes part of Mediterranean summer ritual

    Greek, Italian and Spanish islands rely on rationing, tankers and desalination as global warming and tourists sap reserves

    A worker refills a water tanker
  • Monday, 19 August, 2024
    Neurotechnology
    Implants reduce Parkinson’s symptoms by reading brain activity

    Computer interface technology promises a ‘smart pacemaker’ to help sufferers of the motor disease

    Computer scan of Parkinson’s patient brain
  • Friday, 9 August, 2024
    News in-depthMiddle East war
    Israel braces for biggest test of air defences from Iran-led attack

    Israeli officials expect huge test for multi-layered array that includes Iron Dome to come in days ahead

  • Thursday, 8 August, 2024
    Paris Olympics
    Lyles targets 200m victory after Olympic photo finish

    US star, who won the 100 metres, aims to eclipse Usain Bolt’s record time in next race

    Noah Lyles competing during a heat in the men’s 200-metre event
  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
    FT Magazine
    Last days of the lonely interstellar spacecraft

    When the 50-year-old Voyager probe stopped sending messages home, Nasa had a problem. No one remembered how to fix it

    A model of a Voyager spacecraft against a space backdrop
  • Wednesday, 31 July, 2024
    Dementia
    High cholesterol critical factor in development of dementia, study finds

    Reducing 14 ‘modifiable’ risks can prevent or delay cognitive disorder, report says

    Doctor reviewing MRI scans
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