Trump’s ambitions for US lunar exploration will be a further boost to the billionaires building a new generation of rocketsPresident Donald Trump has struggled with some of his signature policy promises, but now he has set his sights higher: a return t…
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Barclays funds climate breakdown. We are determined to make it stop | Seema Syeda
The bank is a huge backer of the fossil fuel industry and attendant climate catastrophe. Direct action is vitalFrom Cyclone Idai, which has killed hundreds in south-east Africa, to flooding in Bangladesh – where my family is from – for decades climate …
Read moreNationalised drug companies may be needed to ‘fix antibiotics market’
UK’s superbug tsar Lord Jim O’Neill compares idea to way banks were taken over after 2008 financial crashNationalised or state-run “utility” drug companies may be the only answer to the lack of investment in new antibiotics, former banker and superbug …
Read moreAn innocent drink: could ‘alcosynth’ provide all the joy of booze – without the dangers?
Scientist David Nutt memorably said alcohol is more dangerous than crack. Now, he is trying to invent a healthy synthetic alternative, and the race is on to get it to market‘This is what my brain looks like,” says David Nutt, showing me an intense abst…
Read moreExxonMobil faces EU parliament ban after no show at climate hearing
Oil giant may lose lobby access over failure to answer climate change denial questionsExxonMobil faces losing its lobby privileges at the European parliament after the company failed to show up for the first hearing into climate change denial.ExxonMobi…
Read moreDo universities contribute enough to the UK economy?
Universities are set to be evaluated on how they boost the local economy, but not everyone is convinced by the metrics For Prof Dan Parsons, director of the energy and environment institute at Hull University, being based in one of the windiest areas i…
Read moreChancellor pledges £200m for research into medical lasers and gene technology
Philip Hammond will use spring statement to support hi-tech industry in Cambridge, Edinburgh and OxfordshirePhilip Hammond will boost public spending on genetic research and laser technology by £200m in this week’s spring statement to support some of B…
Read moreCan ‘agritecture’ make cities self-sufficient? – in pictures
Roca London Gallery’s latest show explores real-life projects and products helping city buildings grow food and reuse waste. The exhibition runs 9 Feb to 18 MayAll images courtesy of Roca London Gallery Continue reading…
Read moreCan ‘agritecture’ make cities self-sufficient? – in pictures
Roca London Gallery’s latest show explores real-life projects and products helping city buildings grow food and reuse waste. The exhibition runs 9 Feb to 18 MayAll images courtesy of Roca London Gallery Continue reading…
Read moreBill Gates says poverty is decreasing. He couldn’t be more wrong | Jason Hickel
An infographic endorsed by the Davos set presents the story of coerced global proletarianisation as a neoliberal triumphLast week, as world leaders and business elites arrived in Davos for the World Economic Forum, Bill Gates tweeted an infographic to …
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