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‘It takes a lot to say don’t follow your dream, even if it’s a mad one’
- Other Sports
- November 20, 2019, 06:00
Sometimes the race is not won at the finish line, but in what it takes to get to the start line. I met Kevin Dooney for a drink last weekend, and we (...)

No loss of energy in 97-year-old Nobel laureate’s own battery
- Innovation
- October 23, 2019, 14:00
I am early to a celebratory dinner in honour of the 2019 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Dr John Goodenough. This is a modest affair taking place in (...)

How ditching religious faith can set you free
- Culture
- September 26, 2019, 05:00
People tend to avoid thinking about their mortality. Awareness that we shall all perish one day is instinctively suppressed, or glossed over with reli(...)

Trump rebuffs calls for impeachment of Brett Kavanaugh
- US
- September 15, 2019, 22:02
US president Donald Trump rejected Democrats’ calls for impeaching Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh on Sunday after a new report involving sexual(...)

First human-monkey chimera raises concern among scientists
- Science
- August 3, 2019, 12:00
Efforts to create human-animal chimeras have rebooted an ethical debate after reports emerged that scientists have produced monkey embryos containing (...)

The health advantages of green spaces in urban areas
- Science
- July 25, 2019, 01:00
There is a justifiable push to build more housing, but this pressure should not ignore the benefits of greenery residential areas. Not only for aesthe(...)

Before Stonewall: Secret scrapbooks uncover how gay people were criminalised
- Books
- June 27, 2019, 06:30
This weekend marks the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, a series of protests by group of queer patrons at the Stonewall Inn bar in Greenwic(...)

Corrupt admissions scandal taints joy of US college graduations
- US
- May 25, 2019, 01:00
The picturesque town of New Haven was the location for the latest chapter in the bankruptcy trial of developer Sean Dunne this week. But for most res(...)

High-brow Yale tours and low-brow fun in beautiful Connecticut
- Long Haul
- April 20, 2019, 06:00
Our flight destination in the US is to Bradley International. That would make an excellent pub quiz trivia question: in which US state is Bradley Inte(...)

Is death still the end? Scientists spark life in brains of dead pigs
- Science
- April 17, 2019, 19:04
An experiment has breathed life into the brains of pigs four hours after death. Scientists in the US restored circulation and cellular activity in 32 (...)