Former Paralympian and amputee John McFall is on a mission to get to space🚀

He is the European Space Agency's first ever para-astronaut and has been telling #BBCBreakfast about some of the challenges he might face

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'The reconstruction of a 75,000-year-old Neanderthal woman’s face makes her look quite friendly – there’s a problem with that' theconversation.com/the-reconstruc… via The Conversation

It’s 50 years since a team of Johnson Matthey scientists, based in Royston, Hertfordshire, pioneered their catalytic converter. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Continuing to cover Iceberg A23a - Earth's biggest Iceberg - on its journey across the Antarctic as it drifts, fragments and melts away 🧊

This #BlackHoleWeek , we're pulled in by the farthest active supermassive black hole ever spotted. Webb's image shows the black hole's host: GN-z11, a galaxy that existed when our 13.8 billion-year-old universe was only about 430 million years old. More: go.nasa.gov/4dujNS2

38 years ago a woman in Coventry sent a letter to some scientists. That letter went on to be the most important in Alzheimer's research. Last year, I met Carol Jennings, who wrote it. 1/

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The BBC has been built on people like Richard. Plain and simple. We first met under the clock tower at Waterloo. Must have been ’98. A get-to-know drink before we set up the BBC News website’s Health section. He had all the skills, unlike his beloved Wolves team 🤣 Miss you fella

I do wonder why *NewsHour is determined to remain stuck in the past with “manned” spaceflight. Judy Woodruff used to say it and William Brangham just said it now. 😬

I am hugely honoured & delighted to receive the inaugural Geographical Engagement Award from Royal Geographical Society (with IBG).

The climate stripes are only a globally recognised symbol because of all those who have used the graphics to create such impactful visual representations all across the world.

Too much, too young, too fast? The first results from mine and Fergus Cullen's EXCELS JWST Cycle 2 programme are out today. We show beautiful new spectra for 4 ultra-massive galaxies that formed way too many stars when the Universe was way too young 1/3 arxiv.org/abs/2405.02242

The really amazing thing about today's #Neanderthal story is how you go from a squished, fragmented skull embedded in sediment to something that has its original dimensions. A massive 3D jigsaw for which many pieces were missing. bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

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V proud to share that this is now playing Netflix BBC Studios

One’s civic duty has just been performed. #dogsatpollingstations

Good luck, Chang’e-6! Boldly going where no one has gone before. The world lunar community can’t wait to learn more about the farside of the Moon ⁦China National Space Administration (CNSA)⁩ ⁦European Space Agency⁩ ⁦NASA⁩ ⁦ISRO⁩ ⁦JAXA(Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)⁩ ⁦UK Space Agency ROBLOX⁩ ⁦The Open University: School of Physical Sciences⁩ nature.com/articles/d4158…

Exciting #SESNews : SES announced it will acquire Intelsat for $3.1 billion (€2.8 billion) 🤝

Combined company will:
➡️Create a stronger multi-orbit operator with expanded suite of competitive solutions
➡️Enable access to enhanced resources to profitably invest in innovation…