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Scientists are warning that academic publishing needs urgent reform in order to retain trust in the research system. Ian Sample tells Madeleine Finlay what has gone…

For Keir Starmer, this year’s Labour conference was a chance not just to address the party faithful but to see if there were any faithful left.…

The Ig Nobel prizes were awarded recently – for science that makes you laugh and then think – and the peace prize was given to a…

Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan know what first draws people into their podcast: shock value.  Before the two Oklahoma mothers were hosts of the hit…

For almost four decades Nick Lowles has been trying to push back against the far right. First with the research magazine Searchlight and later with the…

When the US president stood up at the podium and announced a link between autism and paracetamol, he sent alarm through the medical community and the…

The US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, has long been consumed by the neurological condition autism – what causes it, and whether there’s a treatment.…

In a televised press conference on Monday, Donald Trump and health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr made a series of unproven claims about autism and its…

A trial is under way to find out if a £100 blood test could transform the way that the NHS diagnoses Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s is the…

Shabana Mahmood is now the first Muslim woman in one of the great offices of state. As the new home secretary she will be in charge…