Want to see how US politics works, watch The Campaign on Netflix. Stellar cast. This movie and the Idiocracy movie epitomises what’s going on in the US at the moment.. Both movies are meant to be satires but sadly today they feel more like documentaries… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cam... 🧪

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

Al Capone got put away for tax evasion.. You have to give it to Trump. He and his family are now above the law. Untouchable. Previous mob bosses tried to buy the US government. Trump bested them all. Trump IS the US government Really don’t understand why Americans let him get away with this 🧪

“The CDC is not even a player, I've never seen that before.” The CDC’s diminished role in the recent hantavirus outbreak is an indicator the agency is no longer the force in international health or the protector of domestic health that it once was. 🦠🧪 www.huffpost.com/entry/expert...

Let the truth be told, let the press be free. 📰 Journalists give a voice to the voiceless, hold power to account, and shine a light in the darkest corners of society often at great personal risk. Too many face intimidation, censorship, and violence simply for doing their job.

mRNA vaccines continue to show major promise. In a small Phase 1 trial led by Dr. Balachandran, some patients with pancreatic cancer (one of the deadliest cancers) reached 6-year survival. This is why sustained investment in science & research matters. tinyurl.com/f4n4anhk

75 years ago, the Treaty of Paris was signed, establishing the European Coal and Steel Community. Six countries joined forces to build a shared market, choosing cooperation over conflict. Born from the desire for peace after WWII, this treaty laid the foundation for the Union we know today. 🇪🇺

A New York State cemetery may be home to nearly 5.6 million ground-nesting bees. The colony is one of the largest ever recorded and likely one of the oldest.

Female mouse embryos with a single nucleotide change in a non-coding region of DNA (the enhancer of the sox gene) develop male reproductive organs. The region of mouse DNA that was modified is also important for human sex determination. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Scientists tested whether AI would accept a fake medical paper about a made-up illness. The paper even contains a statement that it is fake Within weeks major AI systems began repeating the invented illness as if it were real. Worse still, it got cited by others 🧪🦠 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Anthropic has built a new AI model that is too powerful to be released to the public. Mythos Preview carries out autonomous cyber security research, exposing vulnerabilities in the world’s most critical software, including every major operating system and browser. 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/t...

For the second year in a row, the Trump administration proposes to slash the budgets of major US science agencies. These include federal agencies that fund or conduct research on health, space and the environment. What could possibly go wrong.. 🧪🦠 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The Trump administration’s continued attacks on academia and its funding cuts to scientific research could shrink the U.S. economy by nearly $1 trillion over 10 years. That could leave the U.S. lagging behind China, which is investing heavily in research. 🧪🦠 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/b...

EU-WISH is launching a webinar series on technical knowledge of AMR monitoring in wastewater. Members of EU-WISH and EU-JAMRAI2 can deepen their expertise in culture-based and PCR-based workflows, while preparing the ground for hands-on training activities later this year. #EU_WISH #IDsky #Episky 🧪

Archaeologists achieve a historic milestone by dating French cave paintings with carbon-14 for the first time: www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/03/a...

www.economist.com/science-and-... If the Chinese demo reactor is "up and running" in 2030 it will be way ahead of ITER and private enterprise projects in the USA.

Pinnipeds have been hard hit by HPAI H5N1, with substantial parts of the population or species being removed by the diseases. Its really critically that disease to be better considered in pinniped conservation. 👉 royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...

The emergence of a chemical system capable of self-replication and evolution is a critical event in the origin of life. This paper describes a ribozyme, a catalytic RNA molecule, able to do just that.. Fascinating stuff… 🧪🦠 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The system acts as near-permanent archival storage for backup of critical data. It stores 4.8 terabytes, the equivalent of around 2 million printed books Data survives for 10,000 years at a temperature of 290ºC and much longer at room temperature. 🧪🦠 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

All major large language models (LLMs) can be used to either commit academic fraud or facilitate junk science, a test of 13 models has found. There were major differences though, with Claude made by Anthropic being most resistant to committing fraud. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

All major large language models (LLMs) can be used to either commit academic fraud or facilitate junk science, a test of 13 models has found. There were major differences though, with Claude made by Anthropic being most resistant to committing fraud. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“Cognitive psychology has shown that students grow intellectually through doing the work of drafting, revising, failing, trying again, grappling with confusion, and revising weak arguments. This is the work of learning how to learn” phys.org/news/2026-02...

Pope Rejects Trump’s “Board of Peace” Invite

The UK has suddenly pulled funding for two international physics projects: The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, and construction of a new particle accelerator in the US. UK will no longer be seen as a reliable partner in fundamental physics. 🧪 www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...

The system acts as near-permanent archival storage for backup of critical data. It stores 4.8 terabytes, the equivalent of around 2 million printed books Data survives for 10,000 years at a temperature of 290ºC and much longer at room temperature. 🧪🦠 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Stargate SG-1 is on Netflix 😊 one of my favourite SciFi series! Please Netflix also put on Battlestar Galactica 🙏 just one in the pantheon of best SciFi series ever. So say we all! 🧪 (apologies for posting this to the science channel 🤪) @netflix.com

China dominates clean energy industries, from patented technologies to essential raw materials. Last year, it installed more wind turbines and solar panels than the rest of the world combined. Meanwhile the Trump administration aims to keep US oil and gas flowing 🧪 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

What could possibly go wrong? “Staff members at the United States’s premier infectious-disease research institute have been instructed to remove the words “biodefense” and “pandemic preparedness” from the institute’s web pages” 🧪🦠 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Large language models (LLMs) can suggest hypotheses, write code and draft papers, and AI agents are automating parts of the research process. Although this can accelerate science, it also makes it easy to create fake or low-quality papers, known as AI slop. 🧪🦠 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

People living in the Stone Age in Africa, 60,000 years ago, already understood how to harness toxic plants to improve their hunting success. It’s the oldest confirmed use of arrow poison ever identified. 🧪 www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Ancient DNA analysis shows that the first domesticated cats left Africa no earlier than around 2,000 years ago. Yet these felines still had plenty of time to achieve world domination, with hundreds of millions now kept as pets. 🧪 www.sciencenews.org/article/dna-...

Prototaxites was a colossal organism from the Early Devonian (~400 million years ago) that stood up to 8 meters tall. A recent study challenges its long-held fungal classification and instead suggests that it may belong to a previously unknown and extinct lineage! 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Researchers celebrate early results of a drug that may become the first treatment for a serious complication of pregnancy called preeclampsia. It's got the potential to save many lives.

People living in the Stone Age in Africa, 60,000 years ago, already understood how to harness toxic plants to improve their hunting success. It’s the oldest confirmed use of arrow poison ever identified. 🧪 www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

The emergence of a chemical system capable of self-replication and evolution is a critical event in the origin of life. This paper describes a ribozyme, a catalytic RNA molecule, able to do just that.. Fascinating stuff… 🧪🦠 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Large language models (LLMs) can suggest hypotheses, write code and draft papers, and AI agents are automating parts of the research process. Although this can accelerate science, it also makes it easy to create fake or low-quality papers, known as AI slop. 🧪🦠 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

What could possibly go wrong? “Staff members at the United States’s premier infectious-disease research institute have been instructed to remove the words “biodefense” and “pandemic preparedness” from the institute’s web pages” 🧪🦠 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Black Beauty Meteorite: Meteorite NWA 7034, more commonly known as Black Beauty contains much more hidden water than previously suspected. It fell to Earth from Mars, and could reveal clues about the Red Planet's watery past. www.livescience.com/space/mars/m...

If a pulsar that may lie at the center of our galaxy is confirmed, it could enable more precise measurements of the spacetime around the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole

China dominates clean energy industries, from patented technologies to essential raw materials. Last year, it installed more wind turbines and solar panels than the rest of the world combined. Meanwhile the Trump administration aims to keep US oil and gas flowing 🧪 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Though fearsome predators, snakes can go weeks or even months without eating. Now, scientists think they may know how they do it. Snakes have lost the genes to produce ghrelin, a key hormone that regulates appetite, digestion, and fat storage.. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

Over 10,000 doctoral-trained experts in science and related fields left their jobs in the US last year as President Trump dramatically shrank the overall federal workforce. The departing Ph.D.s took with them a wealth of subject matter expertise and knowledge 🧪🦠 www.science.org/content/arti...

A 33-year-old man survived for 48 hours without his lungs, after a medical team replaced the organs with an external artificial-lung system to keep him alive until he could receive a double lung transplant. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Searching for blockbuster drugs and wonder materials is an arduous task for chemists. Now, researchers have created an artificial-intelligence system, MOSAIC, that vastly simplifies and accelerates the process of chemical synthesis. 🧪🦠 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

First-time posters need to be endorsed by an established arXiv author in their own field. The new rule is mostly to try and discourage people from trying to get something started by sending some rubbish to arXiv. 🦠🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

A dairy cow in the Netherlands appears to have been infected with H5N1, the first report of this deadly avian influenza virus having spread to cattle outside of the United States 🧪🦠 www.science.org/content/arti...

Keir Starmer hits back at Donald Trump slur - 'wrong to diminish' our troops No10 has said Donald Trump was wrong to diminish the role that UK and NATO troops played in Afghanistan amid outrage about remarks the US President made in Davos www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

UK's Prime Minister Keir Starmer slams President Donald Trump for "insulting and frankly appalling" comments about non-U.S. NATO troops in Afghanistan.

I grew up during the Cold War. I never ever imagined the US would attack freedom and democracy The US is as much a threat to sovereign European nations as Russia (formerly CCCP) is and was Is there a secret Lavrov-Rubio pact like the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact? 🧪 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Fun fact.. US debt to GDP Ratio is currently at 120% with the US debt at 38 trillion dollars, reaching unsustainable levels. A very significant part of US treasury bonds are held by China, Japan and EU countries .. Power is not just military.. 🧪 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...