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Robin McKie

Robin McKie is science and environment editor for the Observer

August 2024

  • Police clash with right wing protesters in Piccadilly Gardens on 3 August in Manchester.

    Dozens arrested in violent clashes across UK as government warns rioters ‘will pay the price’

  • Cross section of the Iter tokamak reactor

    Is the dream of nuclear fusion dead? Why the international experimental reactor is in ‘big trouble’

July 2024

  • Nadia Mohd-Radzman, with glasses and in a headscarf and cotton jacket, stands in front of vegetable market stalls holding a bunch of broad beans and grinning

    Broad beans could be the cure to Britain’s blues, says Cambridge research scientist

  • Serious and concentrated on game tennis player with racquet before pitch. Active senior man<br>Healthy and active lifestyle of senior people on retirement. No problem with body. Happy old age man in tennis game on sports court. Elderly man in harmony with self in old age. Life of retire people, amateur athlete. Wellbeing and success. SIlver generation, young at heart.

    Turn off Netflix and take the stairs: let’s aim to die healthy rather than just live longer

    Robin McKie
  • A vivid red spiky flower on a tree, seen against a blue sky

    Botanists vote to remove racist reference from plants’ scientific names

  • GP with a patient

    Scientists urge GPs to share UK patient data for research into new treatments

  • ‘Goldmine’ collection of wheat from 100 years ago may help feed the world, scientists say

  • Renewable energy brings a new set of challenges

  • Labour’s ‘rooftop revolution’ to deliver solar power to millions of UK homes

  • ‘Amazing’ new technology set to transform the search for alien life

June 2024

  • Lucy, the 3.2 million-year-old skeleton of an Australopithecus afarensis female, on display at the National Museum of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa.

    Fifty years on, how Lucy, the mother of humanity, changed our understanding of evolution

  • HMS Victory in Portsmouth, against a slightly cloudy sky, with tourists in shorts walking towards the gangplank

    Nelson’s HMS Victory gives scientists vital DNA for battle against deathwatch beetle

  • Pembroke Castle

    Does a cave beneath Pembroke Castle hold key to fate of early Britons?

  • Dr Joseph Cotter with the UK's first commercial quantum accelerometer for navigation.

    ‘It’s the perfect place’: London Underground hosts tests for ‘quantum compass’ that could replace GPS

  • Is there life on one of Saturn’s moons? Scientists plan a mission to find out

  • The High Seas by Olive Heffernan review – the depths of despair

  • Groundbreaking AI heart attack scans could soon be rolled out across UK

  • Science Weekly
    Golden rice: why has it been banned and what happens now? – podcast

  • Scotland’s remote land of bogs and bugs in line for world heritage status

  • ‘Once in a lifetime’: UK and European space scientists urged to join Nasa mission to Uranus

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