Plan to build world’s tallest office block on hold over safety concerns

The Monday Interview

Barcelona scores new deal, Samsung’s smart move, fake news and two UK heavyweights

Week in Review

British teen’s decision throws spotlight on human cryopreservation

MPs warn uncertainty for EU citizens in UK R&D risks undermining collaboration

Kellogg and Starbucks among groups asking president-elect not to rip up accord

Waterlogged ground keeps hewn oak trunks and contents intact for over 1,000 years

Average temperatures 1.2C above pre-industrial revolution levels

Third year in a row emissions levels stayed virtually flat

Vow comes amid fears president-elect Donald Trump will pull US out of global deal

Schemes to control global temperatures remain unproven and risky

Network of portals and pods aims to cut journey time to Abu Dhabi to just 12 minutes

Top-selling carmaker looks to embrace technology alongside fuel cell hybrids

London-listed group joins with Wellcome Trust and Cancer Research UK to target funding

About 200 bats a month are killed in the UK, official study finds

Scheme will be first linked commercially to national grid

A British project to create a reusable launching mechanism could have the edge over Elon Musk’s SpaceX scheme

Companies aim to exploit one of the 21st century’s big advances

If regulators approve, the wheat will be planted next spring on plots in Hertfordshire

Oxford Nanopore received complaint over patent infringement of two-strand DNA sequencing

In a new column on health and wellbeing, Anjana Ahuja weighs the evidence

The Cool Head

UN agency outpaces tech groups to develop machine adept with technical language

Company’s new chips are designed specifically to power machine learning systems