Robin McKie
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Society
Religion must not block progress
- 15 May 2008
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The Commons has usually debated and voted sensibly over on issues such as embryology. Will members - particularly those who are Catholic - do the right thing?
World Affairs
A waste of space
- 03 April 2008
- 13 comments
As Nasa turns 50, expect to hear much about lunar landings and giant leaps for mankind. But today a sense of unease hangs over an agency that badly needs to free itself from the shackles of the past.
Life & Society
Britain's moving story
- 15 January 2007
- 3 comments
New studies of names and genes are confounding core beliefs about being British. We are unadventurous, our family ties are strong and women are exceptionally faithful
World Affairs
A wrong turning in space
- 23 January 2006
Twenty years on from Challenger, the whole space shuttle project remains a disaster
Society
Bring back stinks and bangs!
- 18 April 2005
Children's scientific curiosity is being stifled by teachers' fear of safety regulations and court action. But without risk there can be no discovery, argues Robin McKie
Society
Nature, the most deadly bio-terrorist of all
- 01 January 2005
2005: Epidemics - It may not be in the next 12 months, but very soon, a new and virulent strain of flu is likely to sweep the world. Globalisation has made the spread of disease all too easy. Robin McKie reports
Ideas
Big ideas - As long as a piece of string
- 26 July 2004
Physics - Albert Einstein (left) sought unsuccessfully for a "theory of everything" that would combine quantum mechanics with relativity, and explain both the very tiny (the atom) and the inconceivably large (the universe). Now, physicists think they've found it
