Some good news! 5 yr survival rates for some hard to treat cancers have increased. Liver cancer, with a 7% relative survival rate in the 1990s rose to 22% Lung cancer- 15% to 28% Myeloma- 32% to 62% This is in part due to early detection & better treatment. 🧪 www.cancer.org/research/acs...

First leukaemia patient to receive pioneering treatment on NHS says it is 'very sci-fi.' 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The debris from high-energy particle collisions sometimes includes a surprising ingredient: light atomic nuclei with binding energies that seem far too low for such extreme conditions. Researchers in the #ALICE team @cern.bsky.social have now figured out why. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/cern-team-...

Focused ion beam microscopy is already rather cool, using a tight beam of ions to image and sculpt a surface. But its origin makes it even cooler; the original technology was designed for spaceship engines (specifically, Ion Field Emission Thrusters). 🧪 pubs.aip.org/aip/apl/arti...

A feature in Nature explores how researchers are targeting dormant tumour cells that might explain why some cancers reappear long after successful treatment. #medsky 🧪

Firmed solar power with battery backup in India is now at $0.035/kWh. There are no thermal sources that can touch that price. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 #FossilFuelsAreStrandedAssets www.pv-magazine.com/2026/01/12/i...

“Gate structuring on n-type bilayer MoS2 field-effect transistor for ultrahigh current density” - Nature materials www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“Multiplying matrices in a single pass with light” - Nature photonics

"Science exists because of uncertainty." 2022 #LaskerLaureate Lauren Gardner discusses the role of uncertainty in scientific research. #AskAScientist 🧪 @jhu.edu

“One of our goals was to publish this huge database of African genomes. This resource would be avail to thousands of biomedical researchers in the US &globally. Now I don’t have money to pay to host the data or run an analysis.I have 200 terabytes of data that’s just sitting on a server in Quebec.”🧪

Incredible so few people have this on their radar. In February (knock knock) we are sending humans to the moon (to orbit and come back) for the first time since Apollo over 50 years ago. #scicomm 🧪 #space #moon www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/s...

🧵 This JWST's view of the Red Spider Nebula (NGC 6537) is spectacular! It's about a planetary nebula i.e. the remnants of a Sun-like star shedding its outer layers, ionizing the ejected gas. Webb's NIRCam reveals hot dust & stunning details amid stars. ➡️ esawebb.org/images/potm2... 🔭 🧪 1/6

Nine books to help shape your science career in 2026 www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

I don’t do a lot of editorializing, however I wanted to spotlight this in particular. Though not a perfect example by far, I do think this is the sort of content I originally wanted to share. Essentially, how to use math & science to ‘save’ & ‘improve’ our democracies. Please send more such content.

Schistosomiasis continues to impose a substantial global disease burden. Based on the 2021 Global Burden of Disease study, this systematic analysis reports marked declines in mortality and DALYs over the past three decades, alongside shifting regional patterns.🧪 doi.org/10.1051/para...