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Joe Pinkstone @JoePinkstone

Science correspondent @Telegraph. London via Derby. Tips: joe.pinkstone@telegraph.co.uk

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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 telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12…

Use wartime approach to help ease pressure on NHS, says Vallance

Government’s chief scientific adviser during Covid crisis leads biggest overhaul of clinical trials in 80 years

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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 telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11…

Britain to build backup GPS to protect country in event of attack

Positioning system will use radio towers on the ground rather than relying on easily-jammed satellite signals

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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 telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11…

Superbugs found in British turkeys for first time

New strains resistant to antibiotics makes human infections more dangerous

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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 telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11…

Pugs to lose their trademark flat face

Plan to eradicate features causing health issues in ‘designer dogs’ has support from charities and Kennel Club

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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 🚀🧪 telegraph.co.uk/christmas-ch…

Astronauts working on cure for motor neurone disease from space

Radiation and lack of gravity help scientists research brain disease as cells prematurely age in the orbiting laboratories

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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. telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2…
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🔮 ‘I fear that I can predict when someone is dying’ telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11…

‘I fear that I can predict when someone is dying’

Your ‘inexplicable’ mysteries explained...

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Exc: ‘Snus’ nicotine pouches fuel surge in child hospital admissions telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10…

‘Snus’ nicotine pouches fuel child hospital admissions

The pouches can contain 15 times more nicotine than a cigarette

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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 ⤵️ telegraph.co.uk/science/2025…
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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. telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10…

‘I can’t explain why every hair on my neck rose while on a walk in Nairobi’

Your ‘Inexplicable’ mysteries explained...

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🧬 Babies could be born without a biological mother after scientists created functional human eggs from skin Find out more from @JoePinkstone ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09…
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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 telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2…

How longest-serving convict on death row was exonerated thanks to miso

Iwao Hakamata seeks £3m in damages after he was wrongly sentenced to death in 1968

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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 👇 telegraph.co.uk/health-fitne…
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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 telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08…

Bananas that don’t go brown among gene-edited foods coming to supermarkets – thanks to Brexit

Healthier and tastier groceries that will last for weeks to go on sale in England after change in law

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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 telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08…

How Britain could finally solve its radioactive waste problem

£154m plan hatched to move UK’s 140-tonne cache of powdered plutonium from nuclear reactor waste at Sellafield

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The front page of tomorrow's Daily Telegraph: Kyiv ready to give up land for peace #TomorrowsPapersToday
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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 telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08…

Students fast-tracked for autism diagnosis

UCL receives £80k of funding to set up first-of-its-kind clinic in attempt to tackle surging referrals for young people

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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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Paying people to eat healthily and exercise doesn’t work telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08…

Paying people to eat healthily and to exercise doesn’t work

Government gives away £500,000 in five-month experiment to encourage diet change and more active lifestyle – but the results are ‘trivial’

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