Mike Kenward: “a fierce commitment to making New Scientist accessible and comprehensible to the widest possible readership” www.absw.org.uk/articles/the...

"10 years after the Paris Agreement, governments plan to produce more than double the volume of fossil fuels in 2030 than would be consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5°C" Stark "production gap" report from @unep.org today www.sei.org/publications...

Is this a spoiler for the new Paul Thomas Anderson movie?

I’m waiting for 600 words from @barneyronay.bsky.social on the beauty and athleticism of that Gravenberch goal and how it helps in the quest for a quantum theory of gravity

We were talking about longevity science and the importance of purpose and meaning - and this book came up: Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl open.spotify.com/episode/37wX...

Went for a pint. Bought one for me, one for my friend. £16.10. For two pints!

The world, the universe and us is LIVE 🚨 @rowhoop.bsky.social, @pennysarchet.bsky.social and the team on: 🧓The evolutionary price we pay for longer lives ☄️The asteroid coming VERY close to Earth 🦖How dinosaurs shaped the ecosystem podfollow.com/the-world-th...

PODCAST! 💚 The price we pay for long life ☄️ How to deflect an asteroid 🦕 Dinosaur engineering www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdxo...

Brilliantly fun AND educational thread!

Omar El Akkad on the current complicity over Palestine: "one day everyone will have always been against this". www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

And now the EHT has captured some STUNNING new images of the supermassive black hole 55m light years from us eventhorizontelescope.org/new-eht-imag...

The Book of Dust - part 3!

Nevermind AGI, now chatbots are claiming to be Jesus Christ reborn in digital form

...petition to rename the Bodleian 'Dol Guldur'

On my way to work, A Hammersmith peregrine Relaxes on one leg

The price tag to upgrade the entire UK to cheap, clean energy is £319 billion. That’s just 8 times what the UK Gov had to spend capping rocketing gas prices in winter 2022/3 👇 Instead of pouring money away propping up yesterday’s dirty tech and wrecking our home, why not invest for a better future?

Only just discovered Hannah Sullivan. It feels like feeling in love with someone out of your league

I love social insects (order Hymenoptera) but this is taking it a bit far

Modular nuclear: a bit like an IKEA wardrobe. We’ve known how to do modular for 50 years, Jim Hansen told me for “How To Spend A Trillion Dollars”

Richly deserved! ANDOR wins the Emmy for Best Writing in a Drama Series.

Alexander von Humboldt was born OTD, 1769. This image of Mt Chimborazo is his first depiction of an interconnected web of life. He called it a Naturgemälde.

The cat’s motives are unclear??

Italian astrophotographer Marcella Julia Pace spent 10 years capturing these 48 colors of the Moon.

If only we had a figurehead, say a Labour PM, who could use this to inspire the country and swish away the right-wing narrative

The world, the universe and us is LIVE 🚨 @rowhoop.bsky.social, @pennysarchet.bsky.social and the team on: 👽 Why we can't announce life on Mars (yet) ⚔️ The Romans' impact on the British economy 🏋️ Link between weight lifting and your microbiome podfollow.com/the-world-th...

Species interaction over millions of years. Limpets sheltering in a dinosaur footprint seen at the impressive Triassic track site at the Bendricks, Barri, Cymru. #FossilFriday

New episode: Sanjeev Gupta of Imperial College London and Michael Tice of Texas A&M take us through redox reactions and what it says about the likelihood of life on Mars open.spotify.com/episode/1qtB...

Everyone writing about Perseverance today should be asking how many of the scientists and engineers who were involved in this discovery no longer work for NASA bc of Trump.

Trump. Breaking Wind.

This is so grim. Basically Russian-backed anti-science campaign to spread anti-western feeling in Africa.

We analyse the LIFE ON MARS data... with comment from Janice Bishop of @setiinstitute.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzMW...

"At a time of climatic and economic instability, people in southern Britain turned to feasting" - the "this is fine" meme in the Bronze age www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

This is such positive, powerful, direct communication. The fact that this seems so remarkable and so rare speaks volumes about our failure to stand up to the fossil fuel lobby.

British NIMBYism is truly a sight to behold. “We are rejecting this solar farm, because one time I saw an electric vehicle on fire, which reminded me that decades ago a coal mining disaster killed lots of children”.

Some days it is good to sink into maps. Geological map of Jezero Crater, Mars

Good piece on regenerative agriculture (harnessing the benefits of symbiosis): "the most important farmer and science movement in the world" - by @aprilreese.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

While understanding that decarbonising is always essential, I've been hopeful about some of these ideas in the past, now it seems they are toast. Is there a faint chance that marine cloud brightening might work over the Arctic ocean? www.newscientist.com/article/2495...

TRAPPIST-1e looks nice. www.newscientist.com/article/2495...

Net Zero: saving our world and saving money. Now there's a win-win - if only voters knew about it. "New modelling from BloombergNEF suggests investing just 0.7 per cent of GDP in the net zero transition could unlock huge financial savings - and avert a rolling climate crisis."

See this, @philplait.bsky.social? VLBI for optical telescopes! (paper from RMIT: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.04765) bsky.app/profile/rowh...

UCLA’s Anne Churchland (at 12 mins) on how higher cognitive function hijacked/evolved from parts of the brain involved in movement m.youtube.com/watch?v=HZta...

We discuss the implications of the first complete activity map of the brain: 🧠 Hints of intuition 🐁 What it means for future AI 🚗 Mice learning to drive a Lego car(!) 🧠 Evolution of consciousness with @carandinilab.net, Anne Churchland and Alexandre Pouget 🎧: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

It’s very hard to pick a favourite ant species but I have to go for leaf cutting ants - the world’s first farmers!

Just a normal performance incentive scheme. Musk's wealth currently estimated at $430.9 billion; this could take him to trillion-dollar status www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

0.3% of the world’s land area is needed to meet the current energy demand from solar alone, which is less than the current land footprint of fossil fuel infrastructure - @mjflepage.bsky.social

in a few weeks I'll be hosting a special live episode of our @newscientist.com podcast "The world, the universe and us" at @royalsociety.org. it's going to be all about spaceflight and the human body, with some amazing guests! sign up here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-world-...

and there was Vladimir Demikhov who conducted organ transplants and infamously, DOG head transplants, producing two-headed dogs

Interesting on Putin’s obsession with lifespan extension. I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s a fan of Nikolai Fyodorov, who argued for using science to resurrect the dead www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Nice to see lots of big trout (and lots of small fry) In Beverley Brook

A professor of gastroenterology answers tackles this important question at length in this week’s New Scientist