Guardian science editor and podcast presenter | PhD | Massive, shortlisted Royal Society Science Book Prize | Sony Award | Leaks to rzmihznkov@kilglmnzro.xln
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19 Sep 2025
Great to hear Brent Seales @universityofky on this insanely impressive project 📜🌋🤖
19 Sep 2025
What convinced computer scientist Brent Seales to dedicate 20 years of his life to reading the unopenable Herculaneum Scrolls? Turns out it was the very first moment he saw them…
Listen now on Where the Wild Thoughts Are, episode 5
@ukyengineering
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16 Sep 2025
Putin, Xi and the obsession with radical life extension. Fascinating chat with @DrTregoning and @PjotrSauer
With Ellie Bury and Tom Glasser
#longevity
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8 Sep 2025
Can quantum mechanics save reality?
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10 Sep 2024
AHOY!
We’re taking the Science Weekly podcast to @BritishSciFest on Thursday to ask: Will AI make a good companion?
Come armed with hopes / fears /questions for @mhairi_aitken and @tonyjprescott
Presented & produced by @MadiFinlay and @elliebury
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5 Jul 2024
Thanks to @alokjha for flagging this gem:
A weekend with Gareth Southgate and friends economist.com/britain/2024/0… from @TheEconomist
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27 Jun 2024
“Margaret: they’re taxing non-doms, not condoms” Pure gold from @danielboffey theguardian.com/politics/art…
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9 Apr 2024
He said:
“I was about to burst into tears. I was knocked over by the wave of the reaction of the audience. Up until then I was holding back emotionally, but when the audience reacted, I couldn’t hold back any more. That’s the only way I can explain it.”
I so love this.
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9 Apr 2024
In the closing minutes of the seminar, the audience erupted in applause, and Higgs removed his glasses and dabbed his eyes with a handkerchief. I wanted to ask him about that moment.
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9 Apr 2024
This was the 4 July 2012 seminar when Fabiola Gianotti on Atlas and Joe Incandela on CMS revealed their spectacular results confirming the particle’s existence.
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9 Apr 2024
Some days after CERN announced the discovery of the Higgs boson, I visited Peter in Edinburgh and played him a recording of the event on my laptop.
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9 Apr 2024
Peter was such a lovely, humble and humorous man. And so bloody sharp. RIP.
Peter Higgs, physicist who discovered Higgs boson, dies aged 94 theguardian.com/science/2024…
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25 Jan 2024
After claiming humans once lived to 900 and only experienced shorter lifespans today because of genetic diseases caused by their ancestors sins, the head of a top Russian genetics institute has been sacked. As you'd hope.
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18 Jul 2023
After seven years of lies about Brexit, Tory Govt realises growth needs foreign workers
New relaxations for
Bricklayers
masons
roofers
carpenters
joiners
plasterers
To add to
care workers
engineers
web designers
lab technicians
healthcare workers
-The damage they’ve done
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18 Jul 2023
On today's pod we talk about whether to embrace deep sea mining with the brilliantly-informed @chrismichaelgdn and @DivaAmon.
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18 Jul 2023
I was totally stoked to have Christof Koch AND David Chalmers on the podcast to talk about their bet, made 25 years ago, in a bar in Bremen. Great fun and all thanks to @elliebury and the team.
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18 Jul 2023
"The scandal is still playing out right now. The cover-up is still under way right now."
After 20 years, here’s why the Post Office scandal is special: the cover-up is happening in plain sight | Marina Hyde theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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11 Jul 2023
It's Corvid for Fuck You.
Crows and magpies using anti-bird spikes to build nests, researchers find theguardian.com/science/2023…
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