The West Africa, West Indies, West London (WWW) Consortium, which convenes researchers from the Crick and across the UK, Ghana and Jamaica, are hoping to reveal the impact of genetics and the environment on responses to future pandemic threats. www.crick.ac.uk/news/2026-10...
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Further down today’s ranking of Science: page 3 of 5.
I'll never be this cool.
Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the Apollo project who ultimately led the 100-person team that guided Armstrong and Aldrin to a safe landing on the moon, dies at 90. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/o...
Materials science is key to the long-term survival of the human race. This is promising. More please. #materialsScience #hydrogen #science zmescience.com/science/chemist…
Ice at the South Pole reveals cosmic particle accelerators #Physics #Science nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/…
A new study by Andrii Rozhok, Niles Eldredge, and James DeGregori which presents a novel population genetic mechanism of evolution—the directional selection (of deviating forms) also selects, as a dynamic spandrel, higher mutation rate forms! 🧪 #Paleobio #EvoBio doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
Research Project Manager - One Health Microbiome Center Pennsylvania State University Advance the Center’s scholarship with meaningful work covering research and education writing, organizational support, and financial stewardship. See the full job description on jobRxiv: jobrxiv.org/job/pennsylvania-s…... jobrxiv.org/job/pennsylvania-s…
a lot of the stuff with quantum physics isn't nearly as daunting as it seems at first brush, like maybe you hear about a crystal that can split one photon into two photons, and that sounds crazy, until you hear, oh, each photon has less energy than the original one? okay, thats not too weird then
LUX–ZEPLIN dark matter detector: 7 tonnes of ultra-pure liquid xenon IceCube Neutrino observatory: a cubic kilometre of ancient, pristine Antarctic ice KM3NeT: a cubic kilometre of the Mediterranean. May contain plankton, fish poo and Vibrio cholerae.
20 early career researchers joined us for #IceLabCamp last week, bringing together an impressive range of disciplines, perspectives and ideas. As one participant reflected, interdisciplinary work requires “patience and communication”, but is ultimately rewarding in how it broadens your horizons.
Great idea, mortal. flipboard.com/@sciencing/astro…
I'm not going to lie, this review puts the various challenges driving multicellularity very elegantly. For anyone excited about this field, this review is a must read. And damn this video is very very nice ! Congrats Will, Kai and Ozan.
🌌 oddquark // Cosmos Watch — 2026-10-08 Stars whipping around Sgr A* at mind-bending speeds are basically nature's own probes into the gravity well at our galaxy's core 🌌 Every orbit we track is a new clue about what's really lurking in that mysterious heart. Absolutely thrilling! 🔗 newscientist.com/article/25904… #MilkyWay #BlackHole #Cosmology #Astronomy
🏺 🦣 🧪 Been waiting YEARS for more deets on astonishing wooden objects used by #Neanderthals at Abric Romaní (a site which, as anyone who's read #Kindred knows, I rave about). Can't wait to dive in: bark(!) trays, wood tools inc poss spears, and structural objects www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
This new work by Liu et al. identifies the embryo–endosperm interface as an important cellular domain associated with #embryogenesis, providing a valuable resource for dissecting the molecular basis of seed formation in #rice. doi.org/10.1111/jipb.70373 @WileyLifeSci #PlantSci #JIPB #botany
Imagine losing species before we've even discovered them. For fungi, that's already happening. Fungi help plants thrive, store carbon and support ecosystems. Yet they're being lost before we even know they exist. Donate today and help bring fungi out of the shadows🍄- joinplantlife.org/46Ofr6m
Congrats to UT Austin colleague Ian Molineux on his International Society for Viruses and Microorganisms Lifetime Achievement Award. molecularbiosci.utexas.edu/news/accolad...
Scientists do what religions and holy books don’t. ❤️❤️❤️science.
WATCH LIVE: Winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in chemistry is … The Nobel Prize in chemistry will be announced Wednesday. PBS NewsHour · World pbs.org/newshour/science/watch… #News #WorldNews
#Isaias has continued to strengthen, now the latest first hurricane of the satellite era. Microwave earlier today has suggested a lopsided core tilted by shear, and the shear is easily seen on this loop. However, it is also highly divergent.
“I have a colleague in neuroscience I’ve started working with and we’ve figured out that we can apply gravitational wave detection technology to identifying changes in brain waves that indicate [when] someone’s experiencing tinnitus” particle.scitech.org.au/atoms-galaxi... #tinnitus #keeplistening
Very cool and creative way to learn more about Neutrinos. science.org/content/article/ar…
Many congratulations to Henri Kagan and Kensō Soai for their work, and for winning the Chemistry Nobel Prize! To celebrate, Nature Protocols has put together a collection of protocols connected with asymmetric synthesis and the analysis of chiral materials. www.nature.com/collections/...
Consequences of recent progress toward the Riemann Hypothesis johndcook.com/blog/2026/10/07/…
Did the Mesolithic hunter-gatherers in Southern Scandinavia use poisoned arrows for hunting? It looks like it! In this new paper with @felixthehauskat.bsky.social @sofiefh.bsky.social @welmoedo.bsky.social et al. we look at the evidence. Out now (OA). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The prize was awarded for work that produces one version of a mirror image molecule. tcnv.link/0ebClki
Mercury lost its crown, and isn’t our Solar System’s hottest planet Mercury, as the closest planet to the Sun and the most absorptive planet in the Solar System, should be the hottest, too. Maybe it was at one point. But Venus is #1 now, and by a lot. bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #astro
#astronomy #blog updated with additions on October 4th. I photographed the moon with Mars, Saturn and the galaxy IC10 in Cassiopeia. philsastronomyblogii.blogspot.…
For centuries, scientists have asked a deceptively simple question: when did animals first appear? The fossil record gives one answer. Chemistry whispers another. dailygalaxy.com/2026/10/perf... #palaeontology #chemistry #fossils #Science #SciChat
A new kind of citizen science, and how to handle it proofsandprompts.com/2026/10/0…
How much do calibration strategy and data type affect timetree inference? In a new study led by @sidney-davies.bsky.social, we used Crocodylia and their rich fossil record to find out 🦴🐊💻🧬 🔗 doi.org/10.1098/rspb... More details in the link 🔼 and Sid's thread 🔽
Future astrophysicists love looking for wormholes.
Watch for them! #SCIENCE!
One thing most people probably don't understand about science is that there is a researcher for every question –– I was just searching for someone to provide insight on a story I'm writing and found somebody who studies the exact thing I'm writing about, in exactly the same region I'm writing about
The proceedings of the 8th International Open Search Symposium #OSSYM2026 are now at: e-publishing.cern.ch/index.php…
Sensing the skeleton: sensorineural regulation in bone — a Review by Zhao Li, Manyu Zhu, Neelima Thottappillil, Sowmya Ramesh & Aaron W. James #neuroscience #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reality TV for scientists! Hear me out hclarke.substack.com/p/buildin…
every scientific discovery in animal communication is like: "wow. this animal doesn't speak gibberish as previously thought"
Jupiter Spicy Moons Explorer, it's determining how spicy each of Jupiter's moons is
#News: Indigenous #Australians, the world’s first #astronomers – are losing access to the night sky as light #pollution drowns out #stars. Protect dark skies and 60,000 years of knowledge #IndigenousRights #HumanRights @palmoildetect.bsky.social
first evidence that neanderthals were able to julienne, chiffonade, and perhaps even brunoise
🧵 on why you should not be coy about pitching new ideas to prospective postdoc advisors (even if you have to tell them you have a better idea than they do)
The truth of why we don't see any signs of intelligent life in space is that apparently evolution will eventually result in huge data centers that do nothing but trade stocks with each other while biological life withers away.
Congratulations to Advisory Council member Geertje Van Keulen, @drgvank.bsky.social, awarded for her longstanding contribution to STEM research at the Wales STEM Awards 2026 this week! Read more: www.wales247.co.uk/wales-stem-a...
‘Asked about what he was going to do for the rest of his day, Halzen said, "I'm working on a proposal; I hope this prize will help get it approved.”’
2026 NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS – PERSPECTIVE FROM A NATURE SENSORS EDITOR. Sensing Neutrinos to understand the Universe! Sensing technologies were instrumental in the discovery recognized by the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Our sustainable blue bioeconomy webinar series continues with 'Ocean function and value: marine ecosystem mapping and services' on 23 October 2026: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve... Image credit: Karen Arnott/EMBL-EBI using AdobeStock images. @blueremediomics.bsky.social | @bluetools-project.eu
European Space Agency: Brake! Time for Hera Asteroid Mission to Go Slow www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
Tübingen researchers discover a new species of giant isopod in the depository Press release of the University of Tübingen and Senckenberg Nature Research Society: Researchers trace evolutionary history of dried specimen from the Caribbean ... weiterlesen
Was out spotting Draconid meteors last night. Lovely clear sky in the early evening but clouded over by midnight. Didn't see a single one. The peak is tonight but my forecast says cloud and rain all night. #Astronomy
