How late will a pregnancy test work? Can it still give a positive result 1,000 years after conception? A test to see if the skeletons of ancient women were in the early stages of pregnancy, or had recently given birth, when they died is being developed: www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...

So the president of the United States plans to meet with Putin in Hungary, and when a reporter asked where that plan came from, this was the reply of the United States government www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Okay, today is physics #NobelPrize day, so there's just enough time for another instalment of... PHYSICS NOBEL PRIZES YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF – PART 2 In 1912, a Swedish inventor called Gustaf Dalén beat Albert Einstein and Max Planck (inter alia) to the biggest prize in physics. How? Well...🧵🧪⚛️

Perhaps it's just me, but I can't get over the fact that in our digital age our electricity grid relies on the decidedly analogue insulating power of paper and oil: news.sky.com/story/nation...

I once watched a pigeon ride the tube from leafy Maida Vale to food rich Paddington station. But this is a whole other level!

British fishermen are up in arms…

Wow. An honest review of an SUV. www.irishtimes.com/motors/revie...

How electricity grids fail - and why restoring Spain and Portugal's power will be a nightmare

US representative at London energy security summit Tommy Joyce says climate policies “harms human lives” and that Biden regulated oil and gas out of existence in favour of “net zero agenda”. But US oil and gas production reached record levels under Biden

Government to decide on regional pricing by summer, Sky News understands Meanwhile Trump's guy at energy security summit quotes the Bible to back up US energy policy, says God's "golden rule" is to love your neighbour, which means selling them oil, gas and coal news.sky.com/story/govern...

Its the bonds what done it. Great analysis by my colleague Ian King news.sky.com/story/trump-...

Top tip if you're home late and reheating pasta carbonara: don't

I remember it being unpleasant & a lot less fudge-y.

This is an important point. Unless people plan now for replacing their boiler when it -- probably unexpectedly-- packs up, they'll have little choice but to get a new gas boiler. Should advice be: sort home energy efficiency now, upgrade heating system so you're "heat pump ready"?

Interested in using data on human behaviour to understand and predict epidemics? Come do a PhD with us! Deadline 7 March – please get in touch if interested! www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-a...

Estonia flips the switch

Make the Moon Great Again? We delved into the future of human space exploration under Donald Trump news.sky.com/story/make-t...

Saturday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the *lowest* on record (JAXA data) • about 640,000 km² below the 2010s mean • about 1,280,000 km² below the 2000s mean • about 1,850,000 km² below the 1990s mean • about 2,290,000 km² below the 1980s mean Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

Hight temperature superconducting magnets anyone? This is about fusion -- but so many other current and future applications news.sky.com/story/the-wo...

Don't let the clickbait ass title confuse you, this is as fine a tribute as you'll get today www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqZp...

Hi mycology Bluesky, do the clear beads of fluid produced by mould have a name? And if so, what is it? Also, can I feed these beans to my children?

The rise and rise of renewables, UK edition. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uks...

The Black and Azov Sea fauna is suffering as a consequence of the oil spill. Local birds, fish, and animals are being suffocated by the massive amounts of mazut in the water.

NEW RECORD: 2024 is the first year in history when wind, solar and hydropower generated more electricity than fossil fuels in the UK.

Great analysis on the causes and impacts of a seismic shift in car manufacturing by my Sky colleague @edconway.bsky.social news.sky.com/story/the-el...

Same story.

In the words of one young barrister: "It's f***ing sh*t." "The whole system is f***ed." news.sky.com/story/inside...

I think I can say, with reasonable certainty, absolutely the fuck not

Home Alone could've had a very different ending if it was made more recently.

Dirty tricks could delay or derail Assisted Dying Bill news.sky.com/story/assist...

Winter strandings of juvenile hardshell #turtles in UK have started! This one still alive! on a beach near Blackpool. Less than 30cm long. Keep an eye out. Contact numbers can be found here: www.ukturtles.online/Graphics%20a... 🐢🌍🧪🦑 #seaturtles #marineturtles

This is what y'all wanted so I'm here to deliver 🙃 Pillars of Googly Eyes is now available as 1000 piece puzzle 🧩 🔗 sciencesocks.co/pages/puzzle... Will you help this go viral again? Please like and share! 🔭🐡🧪

The Open Source Munitions Portal is on BlueSky, an excellent resource for those of us who investigate conflict incidents. As some who has spent hours looking for a single reference image of an at-the-time obscure missile, I know it'll save people a lot of time. bsky.app/profile/muni...

My piece on the climate finance deal at COP29 news.sky.com/story/cop29-...

This post is misinformation, and the CIA is to blame. A lesson in data presentation🧵

My first journey on the newly renamed overground line to Richmond. Mildmay -- named after London charitable hospital that became Europe's first dedicated AIDS hospice in 1985.

I reviewed Jordan Peterson's new book. Never read anything like it. Really quite deranged. www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

Snow is general. London is confused

Well, that escalated quickly

It's true - despite writing the story below... this post is my first on Bluesky! Hello 👋 and if you're interested whether this place can truly challenge X, give it a read:

My colleague @mickeycarroll.bsky.social wrote this. But hasn't yet posted on Bsky -- so thought I'd get her started! news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Shout out to the United States, where gas, the transition fuel, is now emitting as much as coal did in the early 2010s robbieandrew.github.io/GCB2024/

Time for the @bsky.app community to see one of my favorite visualizations of climate change... "Shifting Distribution of Land Temperature Anomalies" by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5211/ ⚒️🧪

Today in Baku... news.sky.com/story/theres...