Young donor hearts become biologically older in an old recipient, and an old heart gets biologically younger in a young recipient! The big implication: this could increase the number of organs available for transplant. My latest new story for @nature.com 🧪 #health www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Old hearts age backwards: transplanted organs adjust to host's biological age

Tracking the biological age of grafted organs suggests that donor pools could be expanded to boost organ availability.

nature.com

Music can be relaxing, as can time in nature. Now it turns out that watching a river flow via a virtual-reality headset while listening to classical music seems to quickly bring people's blood pressure down from a dangerously high level in hospital. 🧪 #health www.newscientist.com/article/2590...

Virtual green spaces and classical music reduce blood pressure in hospital | New Scientist

Watching a river flow via a virtual-reality headset while listening to classical music seems to quickly bring people's blood pressure down from a dangerously high level in hospital

newscientist.com

If anyone would like to see a short video of a deer fawn asking you to follow it to Narnia, this is your lucky day.

"I would very much like to reclaim the flag for myself, for all of us. I want it so that when someone waves it, no-one thinks: 'What is wrong with you?' Instead, I want people to understand: You are happy and realise how lucky you were to be born, grow up, or move to this wonderful country."

Anonymous Germany @anonymousgermany.bsky.social · 2w ago

FETTE OHRFEIGE FÜR FASCHISTEN! #Klopp hat extrem erfolgreich die AfD zur Sau gemacht! Danke!! www.n-tv.de/sport/fussba...

⏰ Start your countdown clock for the exact moment of the autumn #equinox, 01:06 (UK) 23rd Sept, when the Northern hemisphere and Southern hemisphere are equally illuminated. The day length in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Scotland will be ~the same as in 🇳🇿New Zealand 🤓🧪🔭 📷: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich

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Mysterious trenches stretching for miles across the vast Nullarbor Plain in Australia are the surface scars of huge ancient caves collapsing deep underground. My latest for @livescience.com 🧪 www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

Caves beneath sinkhole reveal origin of mystery trenches that score Australian Plain

When giant systems of ancient caves far below the surface of Australia collapsed, it left distinctive clues at the surface.

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cried with laughter doing this, cheers

I love the video in this story I wrote for @nature.com on a method that might help scientists read the text written on burnt scrolls from the library of Herculaneum - without opening them. 🧪 🏺 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Watch scientists decipher burnt scrolls without unrolling them

By making and burning their own papyrus, researchers have come up with a method that might help to read glowing text from unopened scrolls from Herculaneum.

nature.com

Just saw this beautiful, huge caterpillar in Cheddar Gorge. At first I thought it was an elephant hawk-moth caterpillar, but it doesn't have the eye marks and it's got a cool striped "head". Is it a convolvulus hawk-moth? @juliet-turner.bsky.social #caterpillars #moths #insects #wildlife 🦋 🧪 🐛

‘We hebben bewijs gevonden dat het overhandigen van gereedschap een manier is voor ervaren chimpansees om jongere individuen iets te leren.’ Andreu Sánchez-Megías @chrisnsimms.bsky.social @newscientistnl.bsky.social #primatologie #ethologie www.newscientist.nl/nieuws/wilde...

Wilde chimpansees leren hun jonkies gereedschap te gebruiken

Chimpansees geven hun jonkies gereedschap in handen. Dat helpt de kleintjes om te leren vissen naar mieren of algen.

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Another story of mine that just went online for @newscientist.com. The first completely new species of cat to be named in a century - the tilcayo, a type of tiger cat from Bolivia. Isn't it lovely? #cats 🧪 🐈🦊 🐅 www.newscientist.com/article/2589...

Beautiful new cat species is first to be named in a century | New Scientist

The enigmatic tiger cats of South America now encompass a new species – the tilcayo – bringing the number of known tiger cat species to five

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Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

Ooh, here's another story I've written for @newscientist.com (yep, my fingers are on fire from all the typing). This one is about how tiny bursts of exercise once an hour could boost your cognition, adding to evidence for how important it is to take occasional breaks from work. #health 🧪

New Scientist@newscientist.com · 2w ago

Just a couple of minutes of walking around or stretching every hour can improve memory and attention span

The body temperature of Tyrannosaurus rex has finally been figured out, confirming it was warm blooded. Not only that, but the analysis of isotopes in T. rex teeth reveals that the king of the dinosaurs had about the same body temp as humans and elephants 🧪 🦖 www.livescience.com/animals/dino...

Scientists finally figured out the temperature of T. rex's blood ‪— and it was as hot as ours

Tooth analysis has revealed that the king of the dinosaurs was as warm-blooded as a human or an elephant

livescience.com

If you've visited the Parthenon, you were probably told the ancient Greeks built it curved to make it look straight - to counteract potential optical illusions. A new paper digs into this idea and I've just written about it for @newscientist.com 🧪 #architecture www.newscientist.com/article/2589...

The Parthenon's architectural illusions are a myth | New Scientist

Optical illusions thought to have influenced the design of the Parthenon in ancient Greece are not backed up by evidence or are too small to have an effect

newscientist.com

This is a very cool study I have written about for @newscientist.com Adult chimpanzees have been observed passing tools to their younger relatives, helping them learn the skills needed for fishing for ants or algae 🧪 www.newscientist.com/article/2589...

Wild chimpanzees teach youngsters by handing them tools | New Scientist

Adult chimpanzees have been observed passing tools to their younger relatives, helping them learn the skills needed for fishing for ants or algae

newscientist.com

Can anyone spot an invasive plant species here? This is in Somerset, UK. Apologies for the bad pics, they are phone snaps while out for a run. #plants #science #nature #wildlife #rivers #invasivespecies 🧪 🌱

My latest for @nature.com. I found this element particularly interesting: Trust in scientists was less associated with scientists working for the general good of society and more to do with whether they were thought to be on the same side as the respondent. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

People trust scientists seen to be 'on their side', UK study finds

Politics and personal values influence people’s confidence in scientists, finds new report

nature.com

Rob Crank Photography's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Mamas&Papas Female Rainbow Bee-eater has accepted the male's courting gift of a bee. I averted my eyes from any sexy time. #ECK #birds #birdphotography #birdsofbluesky #wildlife #nature #Photography #Nikon #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBlueSky

The BBC had an interesting program on Patricia Kingori's related work. "a lunchtime talk that taught her a shocking fact – that there's a billion dollar industry where Kenyan shadow scholars write hundreds of thousands of essays each year, just so students in the Global North can take the credit."

BBC Audio | Outlook | Fake essays: What I learned meeting Kenya’s shadow scholars

Patricia Kingori reflects on an industry where you can buy ideas and take the credit

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Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2w ago

Of interest too for scholars of the long history of British colonialism and decolonisation.

Help! Parton Community Council has 60 days to raise £70k to buy Parton Kirk (resting place of James Clerk Maxwell). They plan to turn it into a visitor centre celebrating our great hero! The other buyers could turn it into long-term storage 😬 Even £5 would help 🙏🧪⚛️ www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

Help raise £70000 to Save Parton Kirk – JustGiving Crowdfunding

Iʼm raising money to Save Parton Kirk. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans@astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Went on a little pilgrimage today to Parton, the resting place of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Scotland’s very own Einstein, James Clerk Maxwell. Quite the pause when I realised he was only one year older than me (48) when he died. ⚛️🔭

And I thought I had it bad when trying to concentrate at my desk. 🐔 🐣 🐤 🧪

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 3w ago

This merlin just flew into my house and landed on my desk while I was taking a zoom call. I now have at least one colleague who thinks I need to come up with better excuses to get out of meetings.

"I am literally going to be done in 10 seconds," says my son in response to a request to stop what he is doing and do something else far more pressing. Taking him at his word, I start counting: "Ten, nine, eight..." He stops me in outrage. "I didn't mean 'literally' 10 seconds," he says.

Making a free AI chatbot solve a decade-long maths problem in 13 minutes is pretty impressive (and I'm certainly not a fan of getting chatbots to do human thinking). 🧪 Well done @sparkes.bsky.social, great idea and a great story for @newscientist.com

Matthew Sparkes@sparkes.bsky.social · 3w ago

I'm almost embarrassed to have done it. It took no skill. I feel it somehow undermines the work of human mathematicians and I fear it may be the thin end of the wedge for diminished human input in the field. Is this how future mathematicians will feel? www.newscientist.com/article/2587...

This is pretty amazing. A pig kidney transplant has worked in a person for a record nine months. This enabled the recipient to stay off dialysis for longer while waiting for a suitable human donor's kidney to become available. My latest for @newscientist.com 🧪 www.newscientist.com/article/2587...

Pig kidney kept a man off dialysis for nine months in world first | New Scientist

A pig kidney transplant worked for a record nine months. This enabled the recipient to stay off dialysis for longer while waiting for a suitable human donor's kidney to become available

newscientist.com

A murmuration of starlings above Sardinia, Italy. One of my favorite natural phenomena.

The Ig Nobels may not bring the cash of a Nobel prize but they do bring considerable cachet. Some great research in this year's awards. My latest for @nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Buried underpants and a new definition of kissing win 2026 Ig Nobel prizes

The awards highlight weird, funny and improbable research that also makes you think.

nature.com

A delightful visual short story featuring two fungi 🍄 🧪

MaGicBic@dirtysubstrata.bsky.social · 4w ago

Sometimes you get to revisit the same mushroom. I hope you enjoy this little saga as much as I have: How it started - Day 0 #MushroomMonday #FungiFriends 

Loving these nudibranch rockpool finds 🧪 🦑 🐌 #molluscs

Jacob Wood@jacob-wood.bsky.social · 4w ago

Calma glaucoides and Gargamella rosi nudibranchs at Wembury Point today with @beardybirder.bsky.social