Last week the news bulletins featured two utterly discordant messages to the public about the fight to contain Covid. The first was a series of anguished appeals from Ronan Glynn and other public health officials to cut back on socialising. The spike in cases is serious and their concern was palpable. The R number must...
Joan Feynman, who has died aged 93, was an astrophysicist who led the way in discovering what causes the aurora borealis and aurora australis, the cosmic light shows that illuminate the sky around the poles; encouraged by her brother, the Nobel laureate Richard Feynman, she overcame deep-seated prejudice against female scientists - not least in...
Joan Feynman, who has died aged 93, was an astrophysicist who led the way in discovering what causes the aurora borealis and aurora australis, the cosmic light shows that illuminate the sky around the poles; encouraged by her brother, the Nobel laureate Richard Feynman, she overcame deep-seated prejudice against female scientists - not least in...
Harold Evans, the journalist and publisher, who has died aged 92, was appointed editor of The Sunday Times in 1967, at the same time, and at the same age of 38, as William Rees-Mogg became editor of The Times, where Evans succeeded him in 1981 - but there could scarcely have been a greater contrast...
Harold Evans, the journalist and publisher, who has died aged 92, was appointed editor of The Sunday Times in 1967, at the same time, and at the same age of 38, as William Rees-Mogg became editor of The Times, where Evans succeeded him in 1981 - but there could scarcely have been a greater contrast...
