This is a selection of my articles on research, innovation, technology and higher education published by Research Fortnight, Research Europe, Nature, El País and SciDev.Net.
Scoops
- GSK research chief tipped as candidate for chief scientist
- Financial turmoil rocks Royal Institution again
- SKA telescope faces redesign to absorb unexpected costs
- 'Reverse years of cuts', Clark tells Hammond
- Newton Fund to double
- 'Two complex' BIS plans bonfire of agencies
Features
- Alone in space
- AI ethics on the cards
- Bumpy road to Mars
- Sparc of life
- The meaning of Mayism
- Scottish independence referendum: Waiting in the wings
- Under construction
- Una nueva expedición sufre la ‘maldición’ de Shackleton en la Antártida
- Por qué los humanos somos más pacíficos que los chimpancés
- La nación del Pacífico que busca soluciones de ciencia ficción para evitar su hundimiento
Brexit coverage
- In or out: UK decides its future role in Europe
- European academics consider options as Britons go to the polls
- Brexit is real as UK chooses to break with the EU
- British scientists decry 'dreadful' referendum result
- Horizon 2020: Bitter taste of rejection
- Revealed: EU facilities looking to exit UK
- My Brexit story: Funding bids fall victim to exit vote
- My Brexit story: From Italian to British citizen
- My Brexit story: Xenophobia could drive us away
- My Brexit story: UK must allow dependents in
- UK to withdraw from Euratom
- ESA chief launches scathing attack on Brexit
- Denmark eyes UK startups
Interviews
Other articles
- Fabiola Gianotti: CERN chief ponders future after LHC
- Royal Society president, Venki Ramakrishnan: Attractiveness of UK science can political deadlock
- Former UK science minister David Willetts on life after government
- Norman Lamb: 'Not a tribal politician'
- Paul Nurse: A natural scientist must lead UK research funder
- Nature editor-in-chief Philip Campbell: changing the publishing system is in the hands of funders
- Liberal democrat leader Vince Cable on engaging with the Treasury
- Stephan Shakespeare, co-founder of YouGov, on the peculiarities of polls ahead of the EU referendum
- David Parker: UK Space Agency does not neglect science
- Greece's science minister Costas Fotakis on the state of scientific research in the country
Other articles
- Spanish government takes control of Catalonian universities
- Call for an 'IPPC for antimicrobial resistance'
- Tech giants urge states to respect data privacy
- Mobile banking spreading to Asia and Latin America
- How to get an extra billion people online
- Rescue robots 'can aid safety but faster use is key'
- Sugar research fund aims to offset end of quota system
- Health in urban slums depends on better local data
- Guidance show how to integrate science and development
- Sorrow greets passing of star cosmologist Stephen Hawking
- Schiaparelli failure puts Mars rover mission at risk
- Astrobiologists shape pan-European institute
- Brain project commits to reform
- ESA sacrifices science to save ExoMars
- University of Southampton to cut up to 75 academic roles
- Spanish council short-staffed for Horizon 2020
- Spain announces last-minute commitment to European infrared telescope
