Receive free updates on Space exploration We will send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Space exploration news every morning. The European Space Agency is set to launch a €1.4bn space telescope to map the billions of galaxies across the cosmos, providing vital clues for scientists trying to unravel the mystery … Read more
Truly groundbreaking advances in science are sadly rare occurrences. So when they happen, we should celebrate them. The announcement that scientists have successfully created synthetic embryos from stem cells is one such advance. The breakthrough was announced earlier this month in a plenary address at the annual meeting of the International Society for Stem Cell … Read more
One of nature’s simplest elements is giving scientists a major headache after new research shows that protons and neutrons in helium atoms don’t behave as theory suggests they should. The mismatch between theoretical predictions of how these particles behave and what they actually do could point to new physics beyond the Standard Model, the reigning … Read more
Many of us would never have thought of the fact that scientists could actually look back in time. The power of telescopes allows us to study phenomena that occurred billions of years ago, and even glimpse the dawn of creation itself. Now, astrophysicists have solved a great mystery at the heart of the birth of … Read more