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    Anjana Ahuja

    Science Commentator

    Anjana Ahuja is a contributing writer on science, offering weekly opinion on significant developments in global science, health and technology. She was previously a feature writer and columnist at The Times in London.

    She is the co-author, with Professor Mark Van Vugt, of Selected: Why Some People Lead, Why Others Follow, and Why It Matters (2010), on the evolution of human leadership. With Sir Jeremy Farrar, she also co-authored the bestselling Spike: The Virus Vs The People (2021/updated paperback 2022), on the inside story of the Covid-19 pandemic. Spike was shortlisted for the 2022 Orwell Prize for Political Writing and is shortlisted for the 2022 Royal Society Science Book Prize.

    Anjana has a PhD in space physics from Imperial College London, and studied journalism at City University, London.

    Email Anjana Ahuja @anjahuja  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)

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    • Tuesday, 23 May, 2023
      Medical science
      New surgical procedure makes us question what it means to be alive

      The organ recovery technique has provoked criticism from within the scientific community

    • Friday, 19 May, 2023
      ReviewScience books
      Ultra-Processed People by Chris van Tulleken — how our food turned to junk

      The podcaster and presenter breaks down the complex issue of additives with clarity and sensitivity but without moralising

    • Tuesday, 16 May, 2023
      Health
      The loneliness epidemic threatens our health as well as our happiness

      Our craving for human company causes psychological stress, which induces physiological effects

    • Wednesday, 10 May, 2023
      Artificial intelligence
      We need to examine the beliefs of today’s tech luminaries

      The futuristic philosophies favoured by AI’s most prominent supporters ignore the issues we should be grappling with now

    • Wednesday, 3 May, 2023
      Carbon capture and storage
      Turning whales into carbon-based assets won’t be easy

      We have allowed the natural capital on which we all depend to be depreciated off the books

    • Wednesday, 26 April, 2023
      Science
      Scientific rivalries can benefit us all

      From Newton to Darwin, skirmishes for primacy have driven some of the most famous thinkers in history

    • Wednesday, 19 April, 2023
      Mental health
      Automated stress detection might not be the office panacea it appears to be

      New technology intended for self-management could open the door to surveillance

    • Wednesday, 5 April, 2023
      Coronavirus
      We should learn from rival attempts to write pandemic history

      Data-sharing was messy, as shown by duelling claims about who published the coronavirus genome sequence first 

    • Tuesday, 28 March, 2023
      Science
      We can’t let companies get away with making consumers sick

      Just four sectors contribute to at least a third of global deaths — they should be held accountable

    • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
      Scientific research
      World-leading? Britain’s science sector has some way to go

      The country’s reputation is inflated by historic successes and relies on successful outliers

    • Tuesday, 7 March, 2023
      Genomics
      We need rules before we let the genome-editing genie out of the bottle

      Changing human DNA brings hope for treating diseases but raises concerns such as equitable access

    • Wednesday, 1 March, 2023
      Artificial intelligence
      Generative AI is sowing the seeds of doubt in serious science

      Researchers have already developed a bot that could help tell the difference between synthetic and human-generated text

    • Monday, 27 February, 2023
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      Falling wind speeds could affect green energy strategy | FT Rethink

      Anjana Ahuja examines what impact that might have on targets and what could be done to reduce any adverse effects

    • Tuesday, 21 February, 2023
      Science
      A cosmic death spiral may tell us about the age of the universe

      Decoding the 2017 kilonova, when two neutron stars collided, could unlock other astrophysical mysteries

    • Tuesday, 31 January, 2023
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      Dead as a dodo? The unsettling bid to bring back extinct species

      We should focus on conserving endangered animals rather than resurrecting those already gone

    • Tuesday, 24 January, 2023
      Climate change
      ExxonMobil shows the perils of corporate science

      The conglomerate’s research on climate change was much more accurate than its public messaging

    • Tuesday, 24 January, 2023
      Environment6 min
      Battling the avian flu epidemic | FT Food Revolution

      The FT's Anjana Ahuja reports on how virologists are unlocking the secrets of the latest H5N1 avian flu strain

    • Wednesday, 18 January, 2023
      Innovation
      Science is losing its ability to disrupt

      The decline in truly revolutionary research may have serious implications for humanity

    • Wednesday, 11 January, 2023
      Dementia
      New Alzheimer’s drug straddles uneasy gulf between help and harm

      For all its landmark status, lecanemab may end up representing a triumph of hope over evidence

    • Thursday, 5 January, 2023
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      Two books encourage us to look at life afresh — via the senses and cultivating a sense of wonder in our day-to-day lives

    • Wednesday, 4 January, 2023
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      We may be entering Covid’s least predictable year yet

      China’s unleashing of the virus is raising questions about the potential for harmful, new variants

    • Wednesday, 21 December, 2022
      Artificial intelligence
      ‘Grief tech’ avatars aim to take the sting out of death

      Personalised chatbots hope to console the bereaved but the ethics remain complicated

    • Wednesday, 14 December, 2022
      Hydrogen power
      Seawater electrolysis ignites new hope for affordable green hydrogen

      Researchers in China claim their technique bypasses the need for desalination

    • Tuesday, 6 December, 2022
      Agricultural production
      Why lab-grown meat may never be on the menu

      High production costs together with increasingly vegetarian appetites may prevent this industry taking off

    • Tuesday, 29 November, 2022
      Artificial intelligence
      A Machiavellian machine raises ethical questions about AI

      Researchers have developed a bot capable of the deceptions required to prosper in an online diplomacy game

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