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Tuesday November 21 2023

Science

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George Vekinis suggests microwaving steak for a minute or two

How to cook a steak — don’t use salt, microwave it

Chefs often liberally season steak with salt before searing it but a physicist has concluded that they are wrong...

Tuesday November 21 2023, 12.01am, The Times

George Sandeman

The University of Oxford is among the institutions renowned for its success in spinning out new technology companies

Spin-out founders set to gain more financial benefits

Academics and students who commercialise their ideas are set to gain greater financial benefits from their efforts...

Tuesday November 21 2023, 12.01am, The Times

Very few areas on rivers are designated bathing waters

‘It’s disgusting’: Bacteria makes most river swimming spots unsafe

Nearly two thirds of popular swimming spots on English rivers have been found to have unsafe levels of bacteria.

Tuesday November 21 2023, 12.01am, The Times

Three per cent of children in the Canadian study were conceived through fertility treatments such as IVF or artificial insemination

Fertility woes linked to having an autistic child

Rates of autism are higher in children born to parents who struggled with fertility, research shows.

A study of 1.37...

Tuesday November 21 2023, 12.01am, The Times

Eleanor Hayward

, Health Correspondent

The rapid advance of technology opens up a range of possibilities with regard to ageing and lifespans

Search for longer life ‘could be catastrophic’ for planet

For thousands of years, mystics sought an elixir that would grant eternal life. That they did not succeed is...

Tuesday November 21 2023, 12.01am, The Times

, Science Correspondent

Sir Patrick Vallance said Boris Johnson often changed his mind between “imposing full lockdowns and no restrictions at all”

Sunak thought it ‘OK to let people die’, Covid inquiry told

Rishi Sunak argued against a second lockdown and, like Boris Johnson, thought it was OK if people died, according...

Monday November 20 2023, 6.10pm, The Times

, Science Editor |

George Sandeman

Just a couple of glasses of some red wines, often expensive ones, can give you a sore head within half an hour

Scientists figure out why red wine gives us such a headache

Scientists may finally have solved a centuries-old mystery: why is it that some of us will suffer a splitting...

Monday November 20 2023, 5.00pm, The Times

Science Correspondent

Medicines represent the second-highest proportion of NHS expenditure

Medicines deal ‘to save NHS £14 billion’

The body representing Britain’s pharmaceutical industry has reached an NHS branded sales agreement with the...

Monday November 20 2023, 2.45pm, The Times

, Chief Business Correspondent

TREVOR PHILLIPS

Sickle cell breakthrough offers political parable

To the non-scientist the prose is near-impenetrable: “authorisation of the First CRISPR/Cas9 Gene-Edited Therapy...

Monday November 20 2023, 12.03am, The Times

Trevor Phillips

Who knew that happiness has nothing to do with slogans and empty optimism?

A genetic test for happiness? Please no

One of the many reasons I’m not on Instagram is the quotes. “In a world full of hate, be love”, makes me feel...

Monday November 20 2023, 12.03am, The Times

Questions remain over the origin of a process to which Henry Cort gave his name

Academic scrap over iron-working technique ‘buried in gibberish’

Questions about metallurgy rarely attract such controversy. But then questions about metallurgy also rarely get...

Monday November 20 2023, 12.01am, The Times

, Science Editor

Humanity is destined to spend more time on the moon digging for the rare metals that underpin our technologies

Lunar goldrush: mining the moon will be the next space race

The moon pulls the sea to the shore, and humans to its surface. The moment we could, we went there. There was a...

Sunday November 19 2023, 12.01am, The Sunday Times

Tim Marshall | Graphics by Matthew Cornick and Julian Osbaldstone

Space breakthrough for Musk but Bezos is in hot pursuit

With two simple words, Elon Musk’s company crystallised its appeal to those who yesterday tuned in to the SpaceX...

Sunday November 19 2023, 12.01am, The Sunday Times

Oxford Nanopore is considered a university spinout success

Chancellor aims to attract more private equity to university spinouts

Ways to encourage more investment by private equity firms into university spinouts are expected to be announced by...

Sunday November 19 2023, 12.01am, The Sunday Times

A study has found that bereaved people in Ireland are much less likely to experience prolonged grief disorder than those in the UK

Wakes ‘can help deal with pain of grief disorder’

Traditional wakes may be behind the lower rates of prolonged grief disorder among bereaved people in Ireland...

Sunday November 19 2023, 12.01am, The Sunday Times

SpaceX Starship self-destructs after successful launch and test flight

SpaceX pulled off a spectacular eight-minute test fight of its Starship, completing critical new steps in its push...

Saturday November 18 2023, 1.30pm, The Sunday Times

A portrait of Marks at the University of Surrey, where he was a professor

Professor Vincent Marks, expert on insulin in Claus von Bülow and Beverly Allitt cases

In 1984 Vincent Marks, professor of clinical biochemistry, University of Surrey, had a call from an American, a Tom...

Saturday November 18 2023, 12.02am, The Times

Participants in the study were followed for a period of two years and reported a daily screen use of between zero and four hours a day

Children’s brains ‘not harmed by more screen time’

There is no evidence that screen time harms children’s thinking abilities or wellbeing, researchers have concluded

Saturday November 18 2023, 12.01am, The Times

, Health Editor

Leeds is a heartland for FirstGroup, which runs 4,500 buses in Britain

Batteries deal to deliver profit boost at FirstGroup

FirstGroup has formed a multimillion-pound joint venture with Hitachi to lease batteries to power its growing fleet...

Saturday November 18 2023, 12.01am, The Times

, Industrial Editor

A pill-sized capsule uses an accelerometer to measure breathing and heart rate

Sensor ‘pill’ can monitor sleep apnoea from the inside

Patients with sleep disorders will no longer need to spend nights hooked up to monitors in a clinic to get a...

Friday November 17 2023, 4.00pm, The Times

, Science Reporter