Alok Jha
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Best science books of 2022
Preventing future pandemics, the secrets of the Higgs boson and the surprising roots of plastic surgery → Read More
Manchester City: following the money – podcast
Manchester City’s fortunes changed dramatically with the takeover by Sheikh Mansour of Abu Dhabi. But after years of success, Europe’s governing body has banned the club from its most prestigious tournament, the Champions League. David Conn explains why. Plus: Alok Jha on the ethics of gene editing → Read More
Episode 3: can we trust science to police itself? – podcast
In our third and final episode, we talk about trust in science. In particular, how historical cases of abuse led many in our groups to question gene editing, science and medicine. If we focus on the past, will we ever move forward? → Read More
Episode 1: what does it mean to be human? – podcast
In the first episode of our podcast series, we look at how DNA and identity interact. Does DNA make us who we are? And what does it mean to be different in a world that strives for perfection? → Read More
Superior: The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini – review
This is an urgent, important book. It contains a warning: you thought racism might be on its way out of science? That the arc of society, bending towards more progressive, tolerant values, had long banished the scientific search for ways in which one grouping of people is inherently more talented, clever or physically able than another? You thought wrong. Race is a relatively recent concept,… → Read More
Varmus on... cycling
Each time we fix up a Mosaic conversation, we ask our subject to bring with them an item. → Read More
Scientists make potential breakthrough in preventing set of inherited diseases
Read Scientists make potential breakthrough in preventing set of inherited diseases latest on ITV News. All the Science, Health, Technology news → Read More
The remarkable Scottish professor who discovered the Zika virus
Written in thin red pen, the words "Zika virus" appear almost as an afterthought in the margins of a log book belonging to the University of Glasgow doctor and epidemiologist, Professor Alexander Haddow. Left hidden in the university archive for almost 40 years, the papers were re-discovered by senior archivist Moira Rankin a few months ago after watching coverage of the Zika epidemic spreading… → Read More
Why Pauline Cafferkey's Ebola case is unprecedented
Pauline Cafferkey has had one of the most unprecedented cases of Ebola ever recorded by medical science. After clearing the illness from her body once, at the height of the Ebola outbreak in the winter of 2014-15, Pauline was laid low by the virus again, almost a year later. At the University of Glasgow, I met Dr Emma Thomson for ITV News, the doctor who led the cutting-edge scientific team that… → Read More
Without Claude Shannon's information theory there would have been no internet
Alok Jha: How to make communications faster and take up less space on a hard disk → Read More
Remain or Leave?
Get all the latest, breaking Remain or Leave? news on ITV News. Videos, stories and updates → Read More
New study reveals a '20% fall in new cases of dementia' in past two decades
Video report by ITV News Science Correspondent Alok Jha. → Read More
Remain or Leave? What could it mean for scientific research?
Ahead of the in/out referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union, ITV News looks at the potential impact on scientific research. → Read More
The search for the existence of gravitational waves
They are ripples in the fabric of spacetime that move at the speed of light. Imagine them like ripples on the surface of a pond after you throw a stone into the water. Gravitational waves carry energy away from a massive objects through space. They are caused by the force of gravity stretching and squeezing space itself. Their intensity depends on how much energy the waves are carrying - if two… → Read More
Dutch flood defences show what can be achieved with investment
Read Dutch flood defences show what can be achieved with investment latest on ITV News. All the news → Read More
Climate deal 'to keep temperatures below 2C'
A target to keep global temperature rises "well below" 2C above pre-industrial levels and limit the impact to 1.5C has been outlined in the final draft agreement at the Paris climate change conference. French foreign minister Laurent Fabius said it was "an ambitious and balanced agreement" that if adopted will mark "a historic turning point" in the global effort to tackle climate change. → Read More
Draft climate deal sets strong targets, but questions remain before agreement reached
The speech from Laurent Fabius this afternoon was an impassioned plea to make history. From it, we can make some educated guesses about the text of the Paris agreement but, until the draft itself comes out in an hour, we have to treat any analysis with caution. The target to keep emissions "well below" 2ºC by 2100 still seems as thought it will be in the final text, as well as the "pursuit" to… → Read More
Climate negotiators 'reach draft deal' at Paris talks
Negotiators at the UN-backed climate talks in Paris have reached a draft deal which will be presented to ministers later this morning. The talks have already run past their official Friday deadline, but the hope is world leaders stand on the brink of a historic deal that will encompass efforts to keep temperature rises to no more than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. → Read More
Almost 200 countries agree climate deal 'to keep temperature rise below 2C'
Almost 200 countries have agreed to the terms of a new international deal to tackle climate change following United Nations talks in Paris. Cheers and applause broke out as the agreement - which includes a pledge to keep temperature rises "well below" 2C - was officially passed. Prime Minister David Cameron said the deal had "secured our planet for many, many generations to come." → Read More
Decision over climate deal pushed back to Saturday
A decision on a global climate deal will not be made until Saturday, it has been announced. It had been hoped a deal would be announced by Friday evening after French Foreign Minister and chair of the Paris talks, Laurent Fabius, said agreement was "extremely close". → Read More