Tom Whipple

Michael O’Leary, the boss of Ryanair, says no one needs to have alcohol in the morning. The dawn crowd at Luton see things differently

Man who helped to sequence the human genome had plenty of detractors but a lot of people have benefited from his unorthodox methods

Paratroopers and medics made a perilous 8,000ft jump to reach an infected islander on Tristan da Cunha. A tiny misjudgment could have been disastrous

Harking back to the Covid pandemic, 22 Britons are in quarantine at Arrowe Park on the Wirral. How will isolation and testing play out and what is next?

A library has been created so that scientists can produce a vaccine in 100 days if there is another pandemic — and that includes hantavirus

In A Billion Years of Sex Differences, evolutionary psychologist Steve Stewart-Williams argues that, yes, men and women are different

From identifying a monarch’s remains to decoding the Führer’s medical issues, the top genetic interpreter Turi King reveals her secrets

ChatGPT is getting better at sums but the great Greek mathematician’s workings in the quest of calculus are true art and reveal a glimpse into a brilliant mind

Many unsexy but crucial projects could have been built instead of the decade-late, scaled-back railway — Tom Whipple counts the opportunity cost

The problem with the Global Positioning System is that it is weak — the signal beamed out by the satellites is only as strong as a car headlight