Honour and great fun discussing my new book, Stephen Hawking: Genius at Work, with Lord Ed Vaizey on Times Radio!

Randomness in computation wins computer-science ‘Nobel’
Computer scientist Avi Wigderson is known for clarifying the role of randomness in algorithms, and for studying their complexity. nature.com/articles/d4158…

Ocean currents threaten to collapse Antarctic ice shelves eurekalert.org/news-releases/…

My colleagues in the Manchester Science Festival and Prof. Adrian M. Owen OBE need your help in a study of brain and body. Could you lend us your brain for an hour or so to complete a survey and cognitive tests on a PC, iMac or tablet? brainbodystudy.com

Here I tell Brian Clegg about my new Hawking book, for the Science Museum and DK Books UK why I got into science and what's next for me popsciencebooks.blogspot.com/2024/04/roger-…

Good morning!

Here I tell Brian Clegg about my new Hawking book, for the Science Museum and DK Books UK why I got into science and what's next for me popsciencebooks.blogspot.com/2024/04/roger-…

My colleagues in the Manchester Science Festival and Prof. Adrian M. Owen OBE need your help in a study of brain and body. Could you lend us your brain for an hour or so to complete a survey and cognitive tests on a PC, iMac or tablet? brainbodystudy.com

Could a Japanese national become the first non-American astronaut to land on the Moon?
nasa.gov/news-release/n… via NASA

This fMRI technique promised to transform brain research — why can no one replicate it? nature.com/articles/d4158… The DIANA technique sparked excitement from neuroscientists. But two new papers have cast doubt over the results.

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Is ChatGPT corrupting peer review? Telltale words hint at AI use nature.com/articles/d4158… The frequency of certain positive adjectives, such as ‘commendable’, ‘innovative’, ‘meticulous’, ‘intricate’, ‘notable’ and ‘versatile’, had increased significantly

Ooo! Taken the Apple Vision Pro for a spin with Anthony Geffen and it’s brilliant - resolution and responsiveness so much better than anything else I have tried

You can read more about the life of Peter Higgs, and his remarkable work, in this tribute blog by our Science Director, Roger Highfield: blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/peter-higgs-19…

I do have a bottle of the Higgs beer and now feel duty bound to collect the rest, expertly curated by my former colleague Rowan Hooper ローワン フーパー!

Higgs cake...excellent

Arf!

Good one, this 👇🏽