The @newscientist.com YouTube account is about to tick over 500k subscribers. We've been publishing some really amazing videos lately including this smash hit on the ancient species we co-existed with. If you're not already subscribed, now is the time! youtube.com/@NewScientist

I'm launching a new monthly maths column, and what better day to do it than Pi Day? Read on to learn what an ancient Egyptian scribe called "Directions for Knowing All Dark Things", why Newton was ashamed by pi, and how our best estimate was wrong for a century www.newscientist.com/article/2471...

🚨 @newscientist.com SCOOP: I've exclusively obtained Peter Kyle's interactions with ChatGPT using FOI laws - in what I believe may be a world-first transparency release. The chatbot said "Lack of Government or Institutional Support" slowed UK AI adoption www.newscientist.com/article/2472...

This is soo cool. Douglas Hofstadter (yup that one) predicted a sort of fractal 50 years ago and now it's finally been seen for real Story by @alexwilkins.bsky.social www.newscientist.com/article/2470...

On @noaa.gov's first monthly climate update call under the Trump Administration, researchers avoided any mention of whether human greenhouse gas emissions have played a role in record global temperatures. 🧪

Absolutely shocking and very worrying from NOAA www.newscientist.com/article/2469...

Book #2 for 2025: "The secret lives of numbers" by Kate Kitagawa and @timothyrevell.bsky.social. A fun tour through the history of math beyond the Greek and Eurocentric stories. Pretty accessible for the non-expert (in my expert opinion). #booksky #mathsky

Toxic masculinity but good www.newscientist.com/article/2462...

Turns out Santa was a lie this whole time www.newscientist.com/article/2459...

Ancient Mesopotamians embodied emotions differently to us. They felt happiness in their liver and anger in their thighs and knees! (according to an analysis of cuneiform texts) www.newscientist.com/article/2458...

Natural selection isn't just something that happens to organisms, their activities also play a role, giving some species – including humans – a supercharged ability to evolve. www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

This week in news you can use "To increase the chance that the robot rodent was socially accepted, the researchers also coated it in rat urine." www.newscientist.com/article/2459...

Nice mix of new books from @timothyrevell.bsky.social @benaaronovitch.bsky.social et al.

Baby's first Bluesky ~personal news~ post: My looong tenure at @politico.com and @politico.eu is ending. From mid-January, I'll join @newscientist.bsky.social as chief subeditor. It's been a wild, decade-plus ride. I'll miss my colleagues immensely, but I'm excited about the new challenge.

The orcas are wearing hats. I repeat the orcas are wearing hats. www.newscientist.com/article/2457...

📣JOB ALERT📣 We're looking for a specials editor – in charge of putting together New Scientist's amazing special reports on the most exciting breakthroughs in science and technology. Details here. www.newscientist.com/nsj/job/1402... Please share to anyone who might be interested

It's time for #SciFri 📻 We kick off with @timothyrevell.bsky.social, who joins us to talk about the outcome of some science-related ballot measures and what we can expect going into another Trump presidency.

Behold the spectre! You might remember a few months back an amazing new shape was discovered called the "hat" that could cover a surface without repeats. Well, it involved an annoying caveat. Now mathematicians have found shapes that don't need the caveat

Met this fella in California

Brooklyn eh

There is now a map of EVERY* tree in Africa https://www.newscientist.com/article/2371349-a-map-of-every-tree-in-africa-will-help-monitor-deforestation/ *nearly

Fellow science and technology journos… who should I be following?

American Kestrel on my balcony a few weeks ago.