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The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical conceptsThis week’s question: Why is there no rugby culture in Germany?I would like to know why we build solar farms over green space, when we could just put them over massive car parks as a popular current internet meme suggests. Chris, MiddlesbroughSend new questions to [email protected]. Continue reading...

New Trump administration rules would undermine longstanding research practices. It’s death by a thousand cutsA politician who aims to gradually privatize and ultimately destroy an institution funded by tax dollars – say, a public school system or public transportation network – may choose to do so by strategically disinvesting resources from that institution until it becomes barely functional, leading users to look elsewhere to meet their needs. Eventually, the user-base of the public

Brent crude dips slightly below $78 a barrel; most Asian stock markets bounce backBritain’s second-biggest drugmaker GSK has also taken a hit from recent drug failures.The Californian biotech Alector has said that GSK has ended their neuroscience collaboration covering ​two experimental antibody drugs, after both drug candidates suffered setbacks in clinical trials.The CARDIO-TTRansform trial was designed to examine the role of Wainua, a gene silencer treatment, on top of today’s stand