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...

Vaccines are a triumph of human ingenuity, modern medicine and public health. It’s no surprise that when the nation’s most prominent anti-vaxxer rose to the highest health office in the land,US vaccine policies are in disarray and access to vaccines is imperiled. 🧪🦠 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/o...

President Trump just wants peace! Peace! Peace! Piece.. A little piece of Greenland A little piece of Cuba A little peace of Canada A little piece of Colombia A little piece of of Venezuela And a little piece of oil… 🧪 youtu.be/64DCO2sI7fI?...

Cotterite is an exceedingly rare form of quartz known from one Irish locality in Co. Cork. I was privileged to be present when Ben (7) brought it into the museum @nmireland.bsky.social Full story just published in Irish Naturalists’ Journal @injournal.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

President Trump just wants peace! Peace! Peace! Piece.. A little piece of Greenland A little piece of Cuba A little peace of Canada A little piece of Colombia A little piece of of Venezuela And a little piece of oil… 🧪 youtu.be/64DCO2sI7fI?...

I don’t think the Nobel Peace Prize is transferable. The FIFA one might be if the price is right… 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/w...

The brutal respiratory infection has infected tens of thousands and killed at least 13 people in the U.S. in 2025

Vaccines are a triumph of human ingenuity, modern medicine and public health. It’s no surprise that when the nation’s most prominent anti-vaxxer rose to the highest health office in the land,US vaccine policies are in disarray and access to vaccines is imperiled. 🧪🦠 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/o...

China now dominates global production of renewable energy technologies. It makes 80% of the world’s solar cells, 70% of its wind turbines, and 70% of its lithium batteries, at prices no competitor can match. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

Astronomers made a truly mind-boggling discovery using the JWST: A runaway super-massive black hole, rocketing through space at a staggering 1,000 km/s, leaving a 200,000 light-year-long tail in its wake in which gas is accumulating and triggering star formation. 🧪 www.space.com/astronomy/bl...

#Sewage is full of lots of stuff that is not poop. Excess #antibiotics from our bodies, or meds dumped in the toilet, end up at wastewater treatment plants too, and from there they can get into our rivers. Use antibiotics as directed to prevent dumping. #AMR #AntibioticResistance

Two highly venomous snakes, a gaboon viper and a puff adder, were discovered by a landlord after his tenant left the country and his animals. Ireland has very little regulation around the ownership of dangerous animals by private individuals. 🧪 www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

Astronomers made a truly mind-boggling discovery using the JWST: A runaway super-massive black hole, rocketing through space at a staggering 1,000 km/s, leaving a 200,000 light-year-long tail in its wake in which gas is accumulating and triggering star formation. 🧪 www.space.com/astronomy/bl...

I have created a poster on sequencing-based spatial transcriptomic technologies and added it to my latest blog post. Please check it out #spatialbiology #spatialomics #transcriptomics 🧪 nonlinear-thoughts.netlify.app/posts/sst-pl...

Despite funding setbacks, the global HIV response gained new momentum. WHO approved twice-yearly injectable lenacapavir for HIV treatment and prevention—marking a major step forward. 🔗 https://bit.ly/49wdcpl

There's more evidence that the Covid-19 vaccine lowers risk of preterm birth, hospital stays and death.. 🧪🦠 www.sciencenews.org/article/bene...

Every year on Christmas Eve in Holten, the Netherlands, candles are lit on the graves of 1394 Canadian soldiers who gave their live to liberate our country from the Nazis. To honour and remember their sacrifice.

Jazz24. One of the best Jazz stations out there. By a long shot.

China now dominates global production of renewable energy technologies. It makes 80% of the world’s solar cells, 70% of its wind turbines, and 70% of its lithium batteries, at prices no competitor can match. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

There's more evidence that the Covid-19 vaccine lowers risk of preterm birth, hospital stays and death.. 🧪🦠 www.sciencenews.org/article/bene...

Every year on Christmas Eve in Holten, the Netherlands, candles are lit on the graves of 1394 Canadian soldiers who gave their live to liberate our country from the Nazis. To honour and remember their sacrifice.

Did Astronomers Just Find a ‘Superkilonova’ Double Explosion? Maybe.

NASA’s newest space telescope has unveiled a stunning map of the cosmos in infrared

One of the first hominids, Hispanopithecus, lived 11 million years in what is now Catalonia. They are believed to have lived largely on tree canopies, only descending to take part in occasional sardanes. They did not have control of fire, and were therefore forced to eat their bruschettas soggy.

For the first time, scientists have directly detected molecules in a Frisbee of gas and dust swirling around an alien gas-giant planet

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-...

Detectives often find important clues by digging through rubbish. That approach paid off for systems biologist Yifat Merbl. When she investigated cellular recycling centres known as proteasomes, she uncovered an entirely new part of the immune system. 🧪🦠 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The 3D global building map opens new possibilities for disaster risk assessment, climate modelling and urban planning. It also helps to improve how the UN Sustainable Development Goals for cities and communities is monitored. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

These microrobots can execute digitally defined algorithms and autonomously change behavior in response to their surroundings. It paves the way for general-purpose microrobots that work together to carry out tasks without supervision in uncertain environments. 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

In 1965 the CIA tried to install a plutonium powered listening device on a mountain top to spy on China. The mission failed, the plutonium core was never recovered. A concern is that the Ganges river, on which hundreds of millions depend, may get contaminated. 🧪 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

In 1965 the CIA tried to install a plutonium powered listening device on a mountain top to spy on China. The mission failed, the plutonium core was never recovered. A concern is that the Ganges river, on which hundreds of millions depend, may get contaminated. 🧪 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A growing number of educators are finding that oral exams allow them to test their students’ learning without the benefit of AI platforms such as ChatGPT. 🧪 www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

These microrobots can execute digitally defined algorithms and autonomously change behavior in response to their surroundings. It paves the way for general-purpose microrobots that work together to carry out tasks without supervision in uncertain environments. 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The 3D global building map opens new possibilities for disaster risk assessment, climate modelling and urban planning. It also helps to improve how the UN Sustainable Development Goals for cities and communities is monitored. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Detectives often find important clues by digging through rubbish. That approach paid off for systems biologist Yifat Merbl. When she investigated cellular recycling centres known as proteasomes, she uncovered an entirely new part of the immune system. 🧪🦠 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The ghost and Mrs Muir starring Hope Lange and Irish actor Edward Mulhare.. Loved that show when growing up.. does anyone remember it?

Participants’ preferences in real-world elections swung by up to 15 percentage points after talking to a chatbot The more information the chatbots provided, the more persuasive they were, but they were also more likely to produce false statements, the authors found 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Some things just get better as they mature. Like good wine and whiskey.. And then there is Ted Danson.. A really great actor.. ‘The Good Place’ and ‘A Man on the Inside’ 😊

We are recruiting an information systems manager to support our data management and stewardship efforts. 13-month contract on 53k/year, but I'll be looking to extend the role contingent on renewed funding for our CRF. Small, close-knit team + flexible working arrangements.

Paradromics, a neurotechnology developer, will carry out a long-term clinical trial of its brain–computer interface (BCI). The device will be implanted in two volunteers who are unable to speak to restore their ability to communicate with real-time speech. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...