Joe Pinkstone

Science correspondent @Telegraph. London via Derby. Tips: [email protected]

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@AaraoWard @flynorse Hi Xander, I am a journalist covering this issue. Send me an email if you wish to talk about your issues regarding the cancelled flights [email protected]

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Exc: Patrick Vallance is using £50m of taxpayer cash to revolutionise clinical trials to speed up drug discovery

The science minister wants to save the NHS by using the “wartime approach” to drug discovery that was a success during the Covid pandemic

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Exc: Britain is to build a backup GPS system to protect the country in the event of an attack.

Live by 2030, the radio-based network will keep key services online if jammers knock out the use of satellite communication https://t.co/wNFHuMaidA

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Exc: Two superbug strains found in British turkeys for first time

Healthy birds tested positive for antimicrobial resistant infections never seen before in the UK

Comes as scientists battle to protect flocks from two surging superbug salmonella strains
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Exc: Pugs to lose their trademark flat face

Scientists, vets, insurers and breeders back plan to eradicate extreme features in a decade

It will likely rewrite the perception wolf what makes a dachshund, pug, bulldog and more https://t.co/oKqIeSbKVP

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Space is the laboratory for the next generation of medicines

Big pharma, astronauts and scientists are working in orbit to find treatments for currently incurable diseases

Harsh radiation and microgravity make it ideal for MND research 🚀🧪 https://t.co/QYYBaIMYKU

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James Watson, Nobel Prize-winning geneticist who co-discovered the structure of DNA, has died.

This interview in The Sunday Telegraph from 1997 gives, in my opinion, the best insight into the man behind the science.
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🔮 ‘I fear that I can predict when someone is dying’
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Exc: ‘Snus’ nicotine pouches fuel surge in child hospital admissions https://t.co/HFGmigOE7H

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🔮 Our Science Editor @sarahknapton and Correspondent @JoePinkstone investigate your most Inexplicable mysteries, using science, psychology and a dash of common sense to separate fact from the paranormal

This week: the eerie case of the doom-predicting child ⤵️ https://t.co/UpzM3disHy

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This week’s Inexplicable column takes us to 1980s Kenya.

Divine intervention, deep-rooted psychology around the fear of the unknown, and the spectre of lurking hippos. https://t.co/AtQvaYc0eQ

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🧬 Babies could be born without a biological mother after scientists created functional human eggs from skin

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How death row's longest-serving convict was freed —thanks to miso

A look into the remarkable retrial and exoneration of Iwao Hakamata with @MaxStephensTele

Scientists studied blood in miso to prove his innocence after four decades awaiting execution

https://t.co/mzOUzZX8KW

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A look at the claims of POTUS on paracetemol and autism

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💊 Last night, Donald Trump held a press conference in which he described the rise in autism in recent decades as “among the most alarming public health developments in history”, and spouted a long list of contentious claims

What does Trump believe about autism and what do scientists think? Watch and read as we unpack it 👇
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Britain’s first gene-edited foods are coming to supermarket shelves in the new year - I took a look at when, how, and what we can expect https://t.co/kDylajmBVZ

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Exclusive: How Britain could finally solve its radioactive waste problem

More than £150million in Government funding for scientists at Sellafield to invent a way to safely turn plutonium powder into ceramic pellets safe for burial https://t.co/w9sojSjKqV

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The front page of tomorrow's Daily Telegraph:

Kyiv ready to give up land for peace

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There has been a 15-fold spike in demand for diagnosis among 18-25 year olds since 2019

The trial hopes it will speed up the time to diagnosis for local people, as well as for university students

There are 138,000 children currently on NHS waitlists for an autism diagnosis

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Exc: Uni students to be fast-tracked for autism diagnosis

A NHS/UCL trial will see a clinic set up just for students.

Many students spend longer waiting for a diagnosis than they do at university as a result of years-long wait times

https://t.co/J9e0oMkqKV