Science Correspondent for BBC News. Also on @pallabg.bsky.social
London, England
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Katie Bouman produced the algorithms that pieced together the data from the network of telescopes taking a picture of a black hole.
Without her work the image would not have been possible. bbc.com/news/science-environ…
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Prof Martin Rees tells @bbcnews: "@LIGO's success was owed to hundreds of researchers. The fact that the #NobelPrize2017 committee refuses to make
group awards is causing increasingly frequent problems + giving a
misleading impression of how a lot of science is actually done".
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Researchers @Cern have discovered a "pentaquark" and two tetraquarks". These the latest in a new family of so-called exotic matter that is enabling physicists to learn more about one of the fundamental forces of nature that holds atoms together. bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…
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There's new tantalising evidence of life on a world 120 light years from Earth. The researchers told me that they were shaking with excitment when they analysed their results. bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…
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The first ever image of a black hole- larger than our solar system described as a “monster”.
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Hawking says Trump's climate stance could damage Earth bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…
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Scientists are absolutely fuming about
@hmtreasury taking back £1.6bn it promised for research. Some are talking about 'betrayal' and others are questioning @10DowningStreet's committment to making the UK a science superpower. bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…
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A study shows journalists’ brains operate lower than average due to “dehydration, self-medicating and caffeine". bit.ly/2rvjNcZ
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#StephenHawking’s final message set to music composed by Vangelis has been transmitted to a Black Hole. Listen to what he had to say to the Universe. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-ca…
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.@CERN ‘s large hadron collider restarts today. It’s had a major upgrade that could enable it to detect particles completely new to science that could revolutionise our understanding of physics. #lhc #newphysics bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…
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The black hole at the centre of our galaxy. Nearly 20 times the size of our Sun.The orange light is superheated gas swirling into the centre. See more on @BBCNews
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.@Pete_Scarbs tells @BBCNews : ''If everyone in the UK who is a big meat-eater reduced the amount of meat they ate, it would make a really big difference. to CO2 levels"
"It would be the equivalent of taking 8 million cars off the road" bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…
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Meet your ancestor. A fossil find in @nature that transforms our theory of how our species emerged on this planet. bbc.in/2sE76O4
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.@wellcometrust @royalsociety and @CRUKresearch are among those urging the government not to abandon talks to enable the UK to participate in a €100bn European research programme and set up a rival UK-led scheme. bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…
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#StephenHawking’s final message has been beamed towards a black hole. It will take 3,500 years to reach it when it will be consumed and then emitted across the Universe as Hawking Radiation. How Fitting #RIP bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-ca…
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A computer simulation shows how the Universe evolved over 14bn years in just 2 minutes bbc.in/1qeKakL
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.@GoogleDeepMind’s AI is now helping scientists speeds up the search for disease genes.@ewanbirney tells me #AI is “changing nearly everything in molecular biology”. bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…
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A few months ago we didn't have any proof that black holes existed. In a few years we'll have detected hundreds. bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…
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Here's how @astro_timpeake's going to help his Nasa mates do a space walk on Monday. bbc.in/1QxfaJt #BritInSpace
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Theresa May wants “positive outcome for UK science” in Brexit talks. @BBC News has exclusive letter bbc.in/2aMwvwL #brexitscience
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The full details of Prof Stephen Hawking's final paper - submitted ten days before he passed away. A paradox involving multiple universes solved. He bent our minds to the end. bbc.in/2HN7W2u
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Nalidi’s hands are similar to ours in the wrist and palm – but curl ape-like at the fingers.bbc.in/1MdrSuI
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Here's a plan by @royalsociety boost black scientists in research. Fellowships to embed five scientists a year in the best universities may seem a small start, but it's hoped it will make a big difference to the lack of diversity in the UK research. bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…
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Spot the mouse! Look closely and you’ll be able to see Ali Erturk of @erturklab holding a transparent mouse he has created that could revolutionise medical research.
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Here are the full details of the first ever image of a black hole.
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Antimatter is supposed to be the opposite of the matter tha tmakes up the world around us. so does it fall up instead of down?
@CERN built a factory to construct antihydrogen atoms to find the answer and has published the answer. bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…
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The “reproducibility crisis” in science refers to the alarming number of research results that are not repeated and so plain wrong. In 2014 85% of all biomedical research wasn’t reproduced. bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…
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How worrying: a scientist fears that falling sperm counts could lead to human extinction... bbc.co.uk/news/health-407197…
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Is naledi a new missing link? Video of Lee Berger showing me how it is a mix of primitive and modern features bbc.in/1JWxtja
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Inside this hole are “goosebumps”. Maybe the lego building blocks from which comets and planets were formed. #Rosetta
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Dr Frédérick Bordry:
"When asked about the benefits of the Higgs Boson, I say 'bosonics'. And when asked what is bosonics, I say 'I don't know'.
"When Thomson discovered the electron he didn't know what electronics was".
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Researchers detect a 'double heavy' particle @LHCbExperiment which will give a new insight into the strong force. bbc.in/2ttC0d3
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A new species of human discovered in China. Meet Dragon Man - maybe our new closest evolutionary relative - displacing the Neanderthals as our sister species. Scientists hail stunning 'Dragon Man' discovery bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…
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#The Hobbit: how the discovery of a tiny species of human rewrote the history of humanity bbc.in/1t6E1YU
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Michel Roccati is the first person with a completely severed spinal cord to walk using his own muscles. It's thanks to an electrical implant. It is not a cure - says the research leader, @gcourtine - but it is an improvement in the quality of his life. bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…
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Prof Stephen Hawking: “It's time to commit to search for life beyond Earth”. bbc.in/1CL9nKQ #SETI
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Brexit uncertainty is already hitting science according to figures obtained by The Royal Society. EU funding, grant applications and researchers choosing to work in the UK all down. This despite government commitments to keep close links with EU research bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…
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The Definition of the kilogram is set to change later today. bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…
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I'm so sorry to hear that my friend and fellow science journalist, Steve Connor has passed away. He was a great reporter, always getting the scoop and never following the pack. He was a great role model and an example to us all. He'll be greatly missed.
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World's oldest cave art pushed back to 51,200 years ago This painting showing humans interacting with a pig is the earliest documented moment of the emergence of human creativity. But I suspect it will be pushed back even further. bbc.com/news/articles/c0vewj…
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The planet Mercury as you've never seen it before. bbc.in/11Lz9vm
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#NewHorizons results show Pluto is among the 'most diverse worlds' in our Solar System bbc.co.uk/news/explainers-34…
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Yay! Researchers @UCL have discovered that a potentially habitable planet has water in its atmosphere! They say that they should be able to determine whether there's life there within ten years. bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…
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New research shows modern humans leaving Africa went extinct multiple times and they may have been helped to survive by interbreeding with Neanderthals - whose DNA may have impimproved our immune system, healing, focus and ability to be morning people! bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyd…
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Watch the full story of how @nhm_London put its diving blue whale in place on @bbc_horizon at 9pm tonight @BBCTwo bbc.in/2ulruYv
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We’ve just heard about a scene where researchers in Seattle are using human brain parts left over from surgery for research at #AAASmtg. They say it’s more likely to lead to treatments than mouse research. And that’s gone down badly with the mouse people! bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…
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Happy Birthday #Higgs! Ten years since it was detected @LHC, But this marvellous celebration also draws attention to the fact there hasn’t been a really big discovery since @Cern. The pressure is on to find something in the new physics run of experiments.bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…
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New research shows we lived alongside Neanderthals for thousands of years longer than anyone thought. bbc.in/1lhTJOk
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.@DefraGovUK has been accused of telling “bare faced lies” about the effectiveness of its #badgercull and the effectiveness of its test for TB in cattle by a group of vets. bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…
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The Prof who killed Pluto, @plutokiller , tells @BBCNews he has "no regrets". bbc.in/1L6CJpv #plutoflyby #newhorizons
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Tim Peake's spacecraft will arrive at @sciencemuseum early next year bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…
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Could this @Fermilab result be the first crack in the #StandardModel ? If so, hold in to your hats. bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…
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Astronomers have discovered what they have called “the perfect solar system”. It has six planets which are around the same size, whose orbits are in perfect harmony.
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Some Xmas cheer: scientists hope to develop genetic drugs for arthritis bbc.in/K5svJs
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Watch @hfalcke’s dream of photographing a black hole come true bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…
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So a good day for UK science – but what would really make the research community’s Christmas is if the good vibes on negotiations over the Northern Ireland Protocol translate into Britain being able to join the EU’s €100bn Horizon Europe research programme. #AutumnStatement 4/4
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UK Chemistry #NobelPrize2017 winner., Richard Henderson tells us that he was at a scientific meeting when he got the call: “I was happily listening then the phone rang. I rarely get phone calls from Sweden but I’m surrounded by the audience so I rejected the phone call”.
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If you thought the Britain is headed toward being a science super power – it’s not. One of the country’s leading scientists, Sir Paul Nurse carried out a review for the government and found that UK research is “fragile, in jeopardy and needs fixing”. 1/2
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.@AstroRoyalScot: "We live in an infinite Universe and it's obvious that we can't be the only intelligent life out there
"We now have the technology and the capability to answer the question of whether we are alone in the cosmos".
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Listen to the first known recordings of Christmas Day. A story of a family's Christmas 110 years ago in London. bbc.in/Ud2pWh
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.@ChrisStringer65 tells me that Europe was “a laboratory for human evolution”. Fabulous new work by him and colleagues on how a big freeze first wiped out early humans on the continent and then led to them adapting to colder conditions through invention. bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…
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Save the planet by eating more fish and chips. Seriously! This amazing story by @mattmcgrathbbc. bbc.in/2BezPxg
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China on the Moon India headed to Mars - is this the start o a new Asian space race?bbc.in/1i71JtA
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The shock particle physics result that could spark a scientific revolution bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…
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President of @royalsociety says government must guarantee right of residence for EU scientists now. bbc.in/292SCwq #BrexitScience
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Huge ring of galaxies challenges thinking on cosmos bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…
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Scientists @Fermilab have “strong evidence” for a new force of nature. piped.video/A9yAFp0_QyE via @YouTube
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Black scientists say UK research is institutionally racist. Read the stories of those who are finding it hard to succeed in scientific careers. bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…
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Research into LSD, Ecstasy and magic mushrooms could lead to treatments for mental illness says David Nutt bbc.in/zMyWL6
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What is 'blobology' and how is it transforming biology? bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…
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#timpeake says to children you can do anything you want to don't let anyone tell you you can't.
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Amazing tree of life by @OneZoomTree.1.8 million species and how they are related on a single navigable web page. bit.ly/2czrR81
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Photo of #2014? #Rosetta's solar panel shimmers in the weak sunshine - hauntingly beautiful. bbc.in/1D5CNi2
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Have a look inside my brain. An amazing project to reveal the essence of humanity. bbc.in/Yfu6Lp
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I was lucky enough to meet #NeilArmstrong. Here’s my story about the real Neil. #Apollo50th bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…
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In 1969 people stayed up all night to watch the Moonlanding on TV - now we are following another allnighter thrilling event on Twitter
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Now the fun begins as #Rosetta sends back data on what the comet is made of and whether it brought water and the stuff of life to Earth
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Neanderthals and humans walked the Earth together for thousands of years. New TV report bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…
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This is most powerful explosion ever detected. It's 8bn light years away and was bright enough to be captured a nasa space telescope. The blast is ten times more powerful than a supernova and thought to be caused by a giant gas cloud swallowed up by a supermassive black hole.
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What is the “fifth force” that scientists @fermlab and @cern may have discovered. Oh, and btw, what are the other four? bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…
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What happens to plants in space? @astro_timpeake has details of how YOU can join in his #RocketScience project.
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A new analysis shows Beagle 2 is in one piece and may still be working on Mars but unable to send back data. bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…
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How the discovery of a gargantuan ring of galaxies challenges one if the main plank of modern astronomy. bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…
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