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Senior Editor, Aeon | Author of non-fiction book The Long View | Honorary professor in science communication, UCL | Formerly: BBC Future, MIT Knight Science Journalism fellow, New Scientist | https://richardfisher.carrd.co
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The strange rocks of the Anthropocene, which blur the boundary between natural and unnatural #geosciences #earthscientists 🧪 aeon.co/essays/the-s...
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Why reality is more than the sum of its particles - by quantum matter physicist Felix Flicker for @aeon.co aeon.co/essays/why-r... ⚛️
I had great fun writing this about David Attenborough's childhood fossil collecting. I went to Leicester for the day, tracing his route from his former home (on the university campus) to the fossil sites like Tilton-on-the-Hill which he visited as boy #earthscience www.bbc.com/future/artic...
"From the planet’s perspective, we’re actually quite a shallow species. Our future scraping by up here on the surface depends on coming to terms with that." A cracking new @aeon.co essay from @jamesdinneen.bsky.social about the deep Earth aeon.co/essays/how-d...
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Really interesting article by @richardfisher.bsky.social www.bbc.com/future/artic...
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“What's at stake is our understanding of the Universe itself.” @richardfisher.bsky.social is as excellent as ever - on the encroachment of artificial light into the home of star-gazing: www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
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You should read this cool piece by my friend @richardfisher.bsky.social about David Attenborough's childhood obsession with fossils! www.bbc.com/future/artic...
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In the Atacama Desert, astronomers live and work in a James Bond villain lair
Daniel Craig's James Bond battled a malign villain here. But Chile's futuristic Residencia is actually home to astronomers.
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Humanity’s artificial glow is swallowing the night sky. Even astronomers in this remote observatory in the South American desert cannot escape it.
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Chile's Atacama Desert is one of the darkest places on Earth. But now the light is intruding
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Fossils fascinated Sir David Attenborough throughout his childhood. The BBC retraces the steps of Sir David's formative experiences roaming the British countryside.
'It was one of the key moments of my life': The thrilling fossil discoveries that sparked Attenborough's love for nature
Chris Baraniuk
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Humanity’s artificial glow is swallowing the night sky. Even astronomers in this remote observatory in the South American desert cannot escape it.
Chile's Atacama Desert is one of the darkest places on Earth. But now the light is intruding
Fossils fascinated Sir David Attenborough throughout his childhood. The BBC retraces the steps of Sir David's formative experiences roaming the British countryside.
www.bbc.com
'It was one of the key moments of my life': The thrilling fossil discoveries that sparked Attenborough's love for nature
‘The whole is not just more than the sum of the parts: it is also different.’ This Essay takes you on a deep dive into the most elementary parts of our Universe to question whether it is really made from its smallest constituents
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Chris Baraniuk, freelance science journalist, is a writing coach & mentor based in Northern Ireland.
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Why reality is more than the sum of its particles | Aeon Essays
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Particles are nature’s smallest constituents, but that doesn’t mean they’re fundamental. So what is the Universe made of?