Museum exec, MRC, visiting prof at the Dunn School, Oxford, and UCL Chemistry. Ex Editor of New Scientist, and Science Editor of the Telegraph. Co-author #VirtualYou and more books. Neutron bouncer
Fascinating, informative and fun chat with Archana Sharma of @cern.bsky.social l about the Higgs, LHC, AI and so much more before a rapt audience at the #JLFLondon, @britishlibrary.bsky.social - as well as being a very cool scientist, she’s also coauthor of India’s Science Geniuses!
TB vaccine from the 1920s shows promise in diabetes trial www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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A lack of sex held back life’s diversity for millions of years www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
Precise genome editing of human embryos triggers praise and alarm www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Eeek! Ancient ground squirrels feasted on carcasses like ‘zombies of the Pleistocene’ www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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The shot reduced insulin use for people with type 1 diabetes and another autoimmune condition.
The way that Earth’s first animals reproduced held back life’s diversity for millions of years, until stress and competition led to the development of sexual reproduction, which in turn ac...
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JLF London at the British Library expands 2026 line-up with global voices and cross-cultural themes
#JLFLondon #LiteratureFestival #GlobalVoices #BritishLibrary #Books #Culture #Ideas #Writers #FestivalNews
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The ‘base editing’ technique that researchers used is far from ready for the clinic, but critics worry it will spur a rush to commercialization.
