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GS-9209 managed to form as many stars as the Milky Way in just 800 million years after the Big Bang

Edinburgh astronomers identify galaxy GS-9209 — 25 billion light years away

Astronomers have used the most powerful telescope ever built to identify a massive, densely packed galaxy 25...

Tuesday May 23 2023, 12.01am, The Times

India is among the countries expected to have the greatest number of people living in areas of extreme heat, forcing them to relocate

Millions may migrate due to extreme temperature

Scientists have warned that more than a fifth of people on Earth will live in extreme temperatures by 2100, with...

Tuesday May 23 2023, 12.00am, The Times

, Environment Editor

Rayyanah Barnawi, 34, will be aboard the ISS for eight days

Saudi astronaut makes giant leap for womankind

Five years after they won the right to drive, Saudi Arabian women are celebrating the arrival of the kingdom’s...

Monday May 22 2023, 8.00pm, The Times

Jacqui Goddard, Miami

As many as one in three people are thought to suffer from chronic pain in the UK

Brain signals linked to chronic pain identified for the first time

Scientists have directly identified some of the brain signals involved in chronic pain for the first time, in a...

Monday May 22 2023, 5.05pm, The Times

, Science Editor

Mikhail Burtsev, left, from Russia, and Oleksandr Kosyak, from Ukraine, have found academic sanctuary at the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences

Maths experts at war find their common denominator

Oleksandr Kosyak is used to imagining improbable relationships. That is, after all, what group theorists do. His is...

Monday May 22 2023, 12.01am, The Times

, Science Editor

The site in Hertfordshire could become Britain’s second largest life sciences complex after Cambridge

New science campus joins Stevenage cluster

Plans for a £900 million life sciences campus in Stevenage, creating one of Europe’s largest clusters, have been...

Monday May 22 2023, 12.01am, The Times

Surfers Against Sewage led protests around the country on Saturday, including at Portobello beach

Scottish Water to install 1,000 more sewage monitors

Managers at Scottish Water have pledged to install 1,000 more pollution monitors across Scotland to help clean up...

Monday May 22 2023, 12.01am, The Times

Habsburg jaws: the Spanish kings Charles II and Philip IV

BOOKS | SCIENCE

Did the ‘Habsburg jaw’ shape history?

I loved Lewis Dartnell’s previous two books. The first, The Knowledge, tells you what you would need to know if...

Sunday May 21 2023, 12.01am, The Sunday Times

James McConnachie

AstraZeneca took part in the China International Import Expo for a fifth consecutive year in 2022 as it looks towards expansion in the country

AstraZeneca boss keeps red flag flying

AstraZeneca should be a patriotic company in China that “loves the Communist Party”, its head of business in the...

Saturday May 20 2023, 12.01am, The Times

A group of bull sharks at Beqa Lagoon in Fiji

BOOK OF THE WEEK

The big blue machine: how the oceans rule the world

Afterwards, Pliny would blame the remora. In a part of the Ionian Sea known as the Ambracian Gulf the heavy fleets...

Saturday May 20 2023, 12.01am, The Times

Researchers think there must be an acoustic duct, a sound channel between the lower atmosphere and the stratosphere that can pass sounds long distances

Mystery shrouds rumblings in clouds

There are mysterious rumblings in the stratosphere. A recent study detected infrasound signals, too low-pitched for...

Saturday May 20 2023, 12.01am, The Times

Less than 4 per cent of Scotland’s storm overflows are monitored for the levels of sewage entering the sea

Sewage pours into sea close to conservation zones

Untreated sewage was released into waters less than a mile from areas designated for marine nature conservation in...

Friday May 19 2023, 12.01am, The Times

A study of New York city found that additional construction near the coast could contribute to future flood risk

Big Apple too heavy for its own good as it sinks under skyscrapers

New York city may be sinking under the weight of its buildings, according to a study that warns that further...

Friday May 19 2023, 12.01am, The Times

Build on the green belt — but do it wisely

‘A gimcrack civilisation crawls like a gigantic slug across the country, leaving a foul trail of slime behind it.”...

Thursday May 18 2023, 9.00pm, The Times

The evolution of the comb jelly holds clues to the origins of humans

Blob-like sea jelly has the nerve to be mother of mankind

Scientists have shed new light on an ancient ancestor by cracking one of zoology’s toughest puzzles: which came...

Thursday May 18 2023, 12.01am, The Times

, Science Correspondent

Stone Age hunters ‘carved out architectural plans’ for huge traps

The rock art doesn’t look like much. Just a few faint scratchy engravings on boulders in the Arabian peninsula. The...

Thursday May 18 2023, 12.01am, The Times

, Science Editor

SaxaVord bosses hope launches will be possible this year but must wait for licences to be awarded

Shetland spaceport heading for first British blast-off

The countdown to the first space rocket blasting off from a British launchpad can begin in earnest this summer, MPs...

Wednesday May 17 2023, 7.10pm, The Times

, Science Reporter

Forest fires devastated swathes of southwest Europe last summer, a reminder of the need for faster climate action

Global warming likely to break critical 1.5C barrier

The world is more likely than not to be 1.5C warmer in the next five years than it was during the industrial...

Wednesday May 17 2023, 5.30pm, The Times

, Environment Editor

BUSINESS COMMENT | ALF YOUNG

We need more than slogans to keep tech superpower dream alive

In early March, Rishi Sunak unveiled his government’s “plan to cement the UK’s place as a science and technology...

Wednesday May 17 2023, 9.50am, The Times

UK: The science, innovation and technology committee questions George Freeman, the science minister, on the UK’s...

Wednesday May 17 2023, 12.01am, The Times