8th November 2024
Berlin, Germany
Insights from a Science-Policy Roundtable Enjoying good food is one of life’s great pleasures. Preparing and eating a delicious meal can be the highlight of a day; it’s emotional, cultural, and, of course, essential for survival. Yet every meal we enjoy carries a carbon footprint. According to the IPCC’s Special Report on Climate Change and […]
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2nd August 2023
Berlin, Germany
Lessons from a science-policy roundtable The messages in the latest IPCC report on climate change are sobering, to say the least: human activities have caused the planet to warm by 1.1°C, causing widespread damage to both people and nature. We are all familiar with the narrative by now: there are low-cost options for mitigating and […]
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18th May 2021
UK, London
As the UK Minister responsible for the Polar Regions, I am deeply interested in the Arctic, one of the most dynamic regions of the world. We know that changes in the Arctic environment affect the UK through global sea-level rise, changes to our climate and weather patterns, and threats to our shared biodiversity. While we […]
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31st August 2020
Guangzhou, China
In March, a large shipment of thousands of masks, gloves, overalls and goggles arrived in Birmingham. Stapled to the side of each of the crates was a quote, in both Chinese and English, attributed to William Shakespeare: ‘He that is thy friend indeed, he will help thee in thy need.’ (“岁寒知松柏，患难见真情.”) This consignment was one […]
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7th June 2020
Maldives
Were it not for covid, for World Oceans Day this year I’d have been writing about early reports from the Nekton Mission’s First Descent in Maldives, following their exploration of sites around Addu Atoll, the Zero Degree Channel and Gnaviyani Atoll. This ambitious expedition to “the Midnight Zone” of the Indian Ocean (the least explored […]
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16th July 2019
King Charles Street, London
Professor Graham Ball holds a chair in Bioinformatics at Nottingham Trent University and is Chief Scientific Officer at Intelligent OMICS Ltd, a company specialising in providing Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning solutions to molecular biomedical problems. He has developed Insilico methods for the analysis of omics data, facilitating the discovery of diagnostic biomarkers, the modelling […]
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27th June 2019
King Charles Street, London
Someone rightly said, the only barrier to promotion should be talent and effort. But women who account for almost 50% of the world’s population, whose contributions to our society are key to its functioning, despite exceling in a variety of fields have abysmal representation in them. One such area is Science, where less than 30% […]
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18th June 2019
Beijing, China
Spring is an important season for farmers as it is a season that they start to sow and hope for a bumper harvest in autumn; it is also the season for agricultural production which helps to maintain the stability of economic development. This spring saw the kick-off of our Newton Fund UK-China Agri-tech Challenges projects. […]
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29th August 2018
Delhi, India
The UK Minister for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation, Sam Gyimah in his first visit to India showed real enthusiasm in further strengthening the bilateral relationship between the two countries where he was met warmly by his Indian counterpart Dr Harsh Vardhan to co-chair the sixth UK-India Science and Innovation Council. The ministers welcomed the […]
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19th March 2018
Delhi, India
‘My success will not depend on what A or B thinks of me. My success will be what I make of my work.’ This quote by the namesake of the Newton-Bhabha Fund, Homi J. Bhabha, aptly describes the work of the UK Catapult Centres. Simply put, Catapults get things done when it comes to finding […]
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