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Telegraph Reporters 25 Mar 2024, 6:10pm
The huge, resource rich territory China will snatch while the West dithers

As a former Royal Navy icebreaker captain, I’m one of just a few who have been there

Tom Sharpe 19 Mar 2024, 4:12pm
AI weather forecasts could change the way we live – and ruin small talk forever

British researchers are working on ways to accurately predict the weather months in advance, but what are we meant to moan about now?

Boudicca Fox-Leonard 28 Feb 2024, 7:00pm
Scientists may have finally solved the mystery of consciousness – their discoveries are troubling

Julian Baggini 24 Feb 2024, 3:00pm
The couple trying to keep killer ‘zombie viruses’ at bay – and protect us from another pandemic

Simon Usborne 18 Feb 2024, 8:00am
AI-generated nonsense about rat with giant penis published by leading scientific journal

Sarah Knapton 16 Feb 2024, 6:35pm
The high-risk agency dreamt up by Dominic Cummings – and its seven big ideas to save the world

James Titcomb 16 Feb 2024, 6:00am

It’s time to stop paying attention to the pseudo-scientific Doomsday Clock

David Lewis Schaefer 12 Feb 2024, 4:55pm
Nasa says goodbye to Ingenuity after historic helicopter makes emergency landing on Mars

Our Foreign Staff 25 Jan 2024, 10:08pm
Cloned monkey is first to survive in good health after 112 failed attempts

Joe Pinkstone 16 Jan 2024, 4:53pm
Stephen Hawking: how the ‘flawed genius’ wound up in the Epstein scandal

Rosa Silverman 5 Jan 2024, 8:06am
New terror laws needed to tackle rise of the radicalising AI chatbots

Robert Mendick 1 Jan 2024, 9:44pm
Smelling women's tears reduces aggression in men

Sarah Knapton 21 Dec 2023, 7:00pm

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Sarah Knapton 4 Dec 2023, 4:39pm
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Rosa Silverman 9 Nov 2023, 4:35pm
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Joe Pinkstone 9 Nov 2023, 10:00am
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Sarah Knapton 23 Oct 2023, 4:00pm
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Joe Pinkstone 4 Oct 2023, 7:00am
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Sarah Knapton 2 Oct 2023, 5:10pm
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Joe Pinkstone 25 Sep 2023, 5:50pm
National Trust installing ‘electronic noses’ on the Yorkshire Moors to ‘sniff’ wildfires

Sarah Knapton 16 Sep 2023, 2:00pm
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Sarah Knapton 16 Sep 2023, 10:00am
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Alex Barton 8 Sep 2023, 7:00am
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Sarah Knapton 3 Sep 2023, 6:59am
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Sarah Knapton 2 Sep 2023, 6:50pm

How humans will colonise the Moon – and when it will happen

Boris Starling 24 Aug 2023, 3:08pm
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Sarah Knapton 8 Aug 2023, 5:07pm
Scientists achieve nuclear fusion breakthrough for a second time

Joe Pinkstone 7 Aug 2023, 6:34pm
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Sarah Knapton 5 Aug 2023, 5:11pm
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Sarah Knapton 20 Jul 2023, 7:00pm
The man who looked at birds and grasped the secrets of the universe

Simon Ings 1 Jul 2023, 5:00pm
Key to stopping bird flu infecting humans is in our genes

Telegraph Reporters 28 Jun 2023, 10:29pm
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Joe Pinkstone 26 Jun 2023, 7:10pm
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Liz Perkins 24 Jun 2023, 10:04pm
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Sarah Knapton 15 Jun 2023, 6:47pm
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Steven Poole 12 Jun 2023, 9:50am
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Sarah Knapton 10 Jun 2023, 2:19pm

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Joe Pinkstone 26 Jun 2023, 7:10pm
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Liz Perkins 24 Jun 2023, 10:04pm
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New breed of sheep accidentally created at a petting zoo

Joe Pinkstone 31 May 2023, 6:43pm
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Joe Pinkstone 31 May 2023, 7:00am
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Sarah Knapton 29 May 2023, 8:00pm
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Telegraph Reporters 28 May 2023, 4:00pm
Nuclear power is the answer to both Putin and Net Zero

Wade Allison 27 May 2023, 7:00am
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Sarah Knapton 26 May 2023, 4:25pm
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Sarah Knapton 25 May 2023, 4:42pm