Ian Bott

Tuesday, 1 July, 2025

Wednesday, 25 June, 2025

News in-depthApple Inc

Carmakers push back against Apple’s takeover of the dashboard

‘CarPlay Ultra’ rollout comes as auto groups are introducing their own infotainment systems

Sunday, 22 June, 2025

Middle East war

Could an American bunker-buster have destroyed Iran’s nuclear mountain?

The US claims it has ‘completely and totally obliterated’ Tehran’s Fordow site but is yet to provide evidence

Wednesday, 18 June, 2025

News in-depthAerospace & Defence

Europe’s air defence dilemma: can Franco-Italian system rival US Patriot?

New SAMP-T system on display at Paris Air Show seeks buyers amid Europe’s efforts to re-arm

Tuesday, 17 June, 2025

News in-depthMiddle East military briefing

How long can it last? Israel and Iran’s endurance battle

Aerial ‘war of the cities’ pits IDF jets against Tehran’s missile reserves

Friday, 13 June, 2025

ExplainerMiddle East military briefing

Can Israel destroy Iran’s nuclear sites?

Country would need bunker-busting bombs to take out reinforced atomic facilities

Friday, 13 June, 2025

Scientific research

Scientists rush to stop mirror microbes that could threaten life on earth

Paris conference urges international action against synthetic organisms that could disrupt critical ecosystems

Wednesday, 11 June, 2025

News in-depthUkraine military briefing

How AI guided Ukraine’s drones to hit Russian airfields

Artificial intelligence took over the steering of unmanned quadcopters after losing signal

Sunday, 1 June, 2025

News in-depthUS-Iran tensions

Military briefing: How Iran is preparing for Israeli or US strikes

Tehran is rebuilding air defences hit by Israel last year as threat of new attacks looms

Friday, 23 May, 2025

The Big Read

How the US plans to break China’s stranglehold on lithium

New technology that extracts the metal from underground brines has been compared to the shale revolution

Thursday, 22 May, 2025

The Big Read

Has Starlink already won the new space race?

Elon Musk’s satellite system dominates the battle for the future of global connectivity. Amazon and Chinese rivals are working to catch up

Wednesday, 21 May, 2025

News in-depthTechnology sector

Inside China’s ‘stolen iPhone building’

We track the roaring trade of mobiles grabbed in London and New York, then sold in a single district in Shenzhen

Monday, 19 May, 2025

The Big Read

The AI revolution changing how we predict the weather

Rapidly advancing technology is helping meteorologists to make more accurate and detailed forecasts even further into the future

Friday, 16 May, 2025

The Big Read

How Ukraine lost hundreds of millions on arms deals gone wrong

Desperate to source munitions, Kyiv paid foreign brokers for weapons and shells that were sometimes unusable or never arrived

Thursday, 15 May, 2025

The Big Read

Deep-sea mining: Can the US turn science fiction into reality?

Donald Trump’s executive order on undersea minerals has encouraged mining companies — but critics say it will damage the environment and struggle to make money

Friday, 9 May, 2025

News in-depthIndia-Pakistan tensions

China’s J-10 ‘Dragon’ shows teeth in India-Pakistan combat debut

Skirmish is first test of Beijing’s military hardware against advanced western technology

Thursday, 24 April, 2025

The Big Read

Should corporate whistleblowers get paid?

Countries including the US, South Korea and Nigeria offer hefty rewards to insiders who uncover wrongdoing. Could the UK finally join them?

Thursday, 24 April, 2025

News in-depthTrump tariffs

Trump tariffs choke vital medical device supply chain

Industry warns that trade disruption will raise prices for hospitals

Wednesday, 23 April, 2025

The Big Read

The cost of Trump’s attack on American science

Sweeping funding cuts threaten to undermine the innovation that has been a central part of US economic strength for decades

Wednesday, 16 April, 2025

Nato

US ‘paradise’ base on alert as Europe braces for Trump’s Nato cuts

Key to alliance’s anti-missile shield, Rota is among 38 bases across Europe at risk of a withdrawal by Washington

Tuesday, 25 March, 2025

Heathrow Airport Holdings Ltd

Why one burning substation grounded Heathrow for a day

Time spent switching power supply and rebooting systems raises doubts over resilience of Europe’s largest aviation hub

Tuesday, 25 March, 2025

FT GlobetrotterCharting London’s museums

Exploring London’s Royal Observatory, the capital’s original time machine

As the clocks go forward this weekend, the FT’s senior graphics artist walks a fine (meridian) line through the birthplace of GMT in its 350th-anniversary year

Monday, 24 March, 2025

ExplainerIsrael-Hamas war

The Israel-Hamas war in maps and charts

A visual guide to the conflict

Monday, 10 March, 2025

Visual story

Inside Russia’s shadow war in the Baltics

A series of suspected sabotage incidents has exposed the vulnerability of Europe’s undersea infrastructure

Sunday, 9 March, 2025

News in-depthEU defence

Can the US switch off Europe’s weapons?

Long hooked on American defence exports, allies feel buyers’ remorse over hardware dependent on Washington support