One of the most consequential scientific breakthroughs I've written about for some time. Scientists are using AI to design new genomes from scratch and then bringing them to life in the lab. I went to California to meet them. In today's Sunday Times and online @thetimes.com

One of the most consequential scientific breakthroughs I've written about for some time. Scientists are using AI to design new genomes from scratch and then bringing them to life in the lab. I went to California to meet them. In today's Sunday Times and online @thetimes.com

In a breakthrough experiment, molecular biologists and tech entrepreneurs have teamed up to write the genetic code of a virus that destroys killer bacteria

The Times and Sunday Times science/environment books of the year are out! By @masudhusain.bsky.social @adamweymouth.bsky.social Tim Gregory Liam Shaw @hannahritchie.bsky.social Suzanne O'Sullivan and Bollore/Bonnassies. List here (click science/environment) www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

An “axis of obstruction” emerges at #Cop30. Roadmap away from fossil fuels kicked down the track after it was blocked by Saudi Arabia, Russia and China. In tomorrow’s Sunday Times and online now @thetimes.com 👇 www.thetimes.com/article/5b14...

Labour ministers accused of abandoning nature in the pursuit of net zero, as row escalates at #Cop30 over UK failure to back fund to save the rainforests. edition.pagesuite.com/popovers/dyn...

Anyone want to go in on a woodland with me? Slightly obsessed by this idea. www.thetimes.com/business-mon...

"Until recently I was City Minister, but in truth I'm more of a country girl than a city girl," new environment secretary Emma Reynolds tells the Labour Party Conference. "A walk in the woods, a hike over the hills, a dip in the sea: these are things that make life worthwhile."

One of the great privileges of my job is going to places few others can. This was one of those trips, 433m below the earth in Finland, down tunnels which will soon be used to dispose of nuclear waste. With amazing photos by Richard Pohle @thetimes.com www.thetimes.co.uk/article/nucl...

Fascinating to speak to Chris Van Tulleken about vaccine hesitancy, how to stop the next pandemic, ultra-processed food and his new BBC documentary Disease X. Oh, and the physics of fart diffusion. In today's Sunday Times @thetimes.com 👇🏻 thetimes.com/article/e9441f…

Why can't Defra hang on to an environment secretary for a decent stretch of time? I've looked at this in today's environment newsletter and examined what we know about the new secretary of state, Emma Reynolds, and what her first challenges will be. link.thetimes.co.uk/view/61951ca...

me, to the judge: “Well if THAT’s what they meant, they should have used punctuation.”

BREAKING: Zack Polanski has been elected as the new leader of the Green Party. This is what I wrote about the impact it will have on the party last week link.thetimes.co.uk/view/61951ca...

Britain's nuclear fleet limps on. Heysham 1 in Lancashire and Hartlepool in Teesside have been given one-year extensions and are now expected to generate electricity until March 2028.

Excl: US pharma giant Gilead is withholding a breast cancer drug from Nice assessment, blaming the UK for undervaluing medicines. It's a marker of the disintegrating relationship between the biosciences industry and government in a war over prices 👇🏻 @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/article/2b11...

Wasps (and me!) in @thesundaytimes.bsky.social today. Thanks @ben-spencer.bsky.social for championing wasps! Get involved with #WaspPicnicSurvey and #BigWaspSurvey! #SummerOfWaspLove Links below! @uclcber.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social @adamhartscience.bsky.social

In today’s Sunday Times: why 70-year-olds look (and feel) better today than they ever have. And why the rest of us may never have it so good. ⁦@thetimes⁩.com 👇 www.thetimes.com/article/d5c1...

Beavers, bison and osprey: an ode to species reintroductions in today’s Sunday Times Magazine. @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/magazines/th...

This is such a great piece by @astrojonny.bsky.social about the chaos at Nasa right now, including the impact it is having on the moon missions and European space projects. 👇🏻 @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/article/9a65...

Patrick Vallance always insisted politics wasn’t for him. So why, a year ago this week, did he accept a job as Labour’s science minister? “If you say no, then you should shut up - and I didn’t feel like shutting up.” My interview with Lord Vallance @thetimes.com 👇 www.thetimes.com/article/7e18...

Patrick Vallance always insisted politics wasn’t for him. So why, a year ago this week, did he accept a job as Labour’s science minister? “If you say no, then you should shut up - and I didn’t feel like shutting up.” My interview with Lord Vallance @thetimes.com 👇 www.thetimes.com/article/7e18...

In the UK, 'vaccination rates are falling because parents have forgotten the devastating impact of childhood diseases' - and in particular, 'that measles kills.' Minister of State for Science, Research and Innovation ‪ @ben-spencer.bsky.social @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/article/7e18...

If you've seen Attenborough's Ocean, you will have seen the unnamed diver from Arran describing the horror of bottom trawling. This is his story: a 35-yr fight to save the seas around his island and how his cause is now taken up by princes and presidents www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

If you've seen Attenborough's Ocean, you will have seen the unnamed diver from Arran describing the horror of bottom trawling. This is his story: a 35-yr fight to save the seas around his island and how his cause is now taken up by princes and presidents www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Next week Ed Miliband will relaunch UK nuclear power with a commitment for Sizewell C and a new fleet of SMRs. But it’s not the first time politicians have attempted to revive nuclear. I delve into a history of false starts for the Sunday Times www.thetimes.com/article/4440...

With a new space race hotting up, Belfast-born Rosemary Coogan, 34, is boldly going where only two UK astronauts have gone before: into orbit. Could she make it to the Moon? Great piece from @ben-spencer.bsky.social who was lucky enough to go inside mission control: www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...

Last month I spent two days at Nasa HQ in Houston with UK astronaut Rosemary Coogan as she trained for a mission to the International Space Station. My piece is online now @thetimes.com and will be in the Sunday Times Magazine this weekend 👇 A career highlight. www.thetimes.com/article/8e90...

The tragic story of seven deaths and a village washed away in Malawi - and the British company which is fighting accusations it is to blame for the disaster. With incredible reporting on the ground from Jack Denton. Online now @thetimes.com

NEW Solar panels to be mandated on vast majority of new homes in England Currently about 40% of new builds have solar; new rules should push that to about 99% Story 👇 www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

In today's Times Environment newsletter, ten reasons to look on the bright side, courtesy of marine biologist Dr Nancy Knowlton and @kayaburgess.bsky.social. link.thetimes.co.uk/view/61951ca...

Thrilled that the Times Environment newsletter I write each week with @henrybird1.bsky.social has been shortlisted for the science category at the Publisher Newsletter Awards. We've been building our readership for the last 4 yrs and we're really proud of what we do - it's great to be recognised.

Thrilled that the Times Environment newsletter I write each week with @henrybird1.bsky.social has been shortlisted for the science category at the Publisher Newsletter Awards. We've been building our readership for the last 4 yrs and we're really proud of what we do - it's great to be recognised.

Are we about to find ET (or even some alien algae?) My update on the search for life in space, including an interview with the Cambridge astrophysicist who last week discovered carbon-based gases on a planet 124 light years away. 👽 @thetimes.com t.co/2pXM5Yjifo

Arise Sir Jimmy! Great to see him back on the front pages today. If you want to know why Anderson deserves his knighthood, read my Sunday Times magazine interview with him, which we published just before the last Ashes. www.thetimes.com/sport/cricke...

The new green pragmatism; net zero during Trump 2.0; clothes that grow with your baby; and the end of Just Stop Oil. All this and more in today's Times environment newsletter. link.thetimes.co.uk/view/61951ca...

In tomorrow's Sunday Times and online now: The new, very quiet face of corporate sustainability during Trump's second regime. Welcome to the era of greenhushing ⬇️ @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/article/eac1...

In tomorrow's Sunday Times and online now: The new, very quiet face of corporate sustainability during Trump's second regime. Welcome to the era of greenhushing ⬇️ @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/article/eac1...

Turku in Finland is striving to achieve carbon neutrality by 2029, two decades ahead of EU targets 🔓 This story is free to read

The paywall is down on the Times and Sunday Times website this weekend - a chance to read our work for free. Here's three pieces I've written recently 1. What happens to your brain when you become a parent - mums and dads, good and bad, cuddles, tantrums and all www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...

I'll probably regret pushing this even further into the world, but here's my tell-all podcast about being a parent and what it does to the brain @thetimes.com shows.acast.com/storiesofour...

Men in their 30's and 40's are increasingly being exposed to social media adverts selling testosterone supplements. MJA member @ben-spencer.bsky.social reveals the dangers: www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

Across the next week, the Times will be publishing a series about climate adaptation and the clean tech revolution. It'll be looking at the solutions that can help Britain prosper, even as the climate heats up. They're free to read, and will appear in print in next Thursday's Times Earth supplement.

There's a story that used to be told about climate change. "We can save the planet. We can keep 1.5C alive". But 1.5C has been breached and we are now in an era of flood and drought. We failed to avert climate change. Is there a plan B? Online now @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

My son Charlie was born with a severe learning disability. For 12 years we never knew what was wrong…..then we got a phone call out of the blue…. This weekend I wrote about the amazing scientific discovery that changed our life t.co/URegR0Cpcg

I’ve never really written about my kids before, so I hope they forgive me for this one. I’ve written a piece for the Sunday Times Magazine about what being a parent does to the brain: good and bad, cuddles and tantrums, short and long-term. 👇 @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/article/3709...

I’ve never really written about my kids before, so I hope they forgive me for this one. I’ve written a piece for the Sunday Times Magazine about what being a parent does to the brain: good and bad, cuddles and tantrums, short and long-term. 👇 @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/article/3709...

Thrilled to be shortlisted for science and tech journalist of the year at this year’s Press Awards, especially in such auspicious company. thepressawards.com/shortlist

"It is no coincidence that the green backlash has emerged as countries stop merely setting net zero goals and start launching policies to meet them. This was always going to be fraught, especially during a cost of living crunch" <<Pilita hits the nail on the head here...

Why the idea of our unchanging green and pleasant land is a myth. In today's environment newsletter link.thetimes.co.uk/view/61951ca...

“We need to be more empathetic about the instinct to want to keep things that you love the same", & a better public conversation on what needs to change in order to save those things. Good @ben-spencer.bsky.social interview with @elpinchbeck.bsky.social shorturl.at/91VtD