Inside Science on BBC Radio 4 - navigating our way through the expanding cosmos, tackling #climate anxiety head-on. And finding out what happens when a bumblebee is underwater for a week! 🐝 💧
Alice Lipscombe-Southwell in the driving seat.

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Millions of donkeys are being killed to make medicine that doesn’t work sciencefocus.com/donkeys-killed…

Stunning revelations from the always fascinating #Pompeii
via ⁦BBC News (UK)⁩ science colleagues ⁦Jonathan Amos⁩ ⁦Rebecca Morelle⁩ ⁦alison francis⁩ & Tony Jolliffe. bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

It’s very sad to hear the news about Peter Higgs. I think he might have had a wry smile to know that journalists are now trying to sum up his groundbreaking theory in a few hundred words. This snippet of interview with Jim Al-Khalili is fabulous:

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Distracted by food poisoning & failed to share this last week - our 200 years of #dinosaurs special!
Primarily the fine work of Alice Lipscombe-Southwell. Featuring the brilliant Dr Emma Louise Nicholls, Steve Brusatte & tom challands 🦕📻

bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

This is seriously cool…🛰️

Darkness descends across N America 🌑
#SolarEclipse2024

Credit: CIRA/NOAA

200 years ago the first dinosaur was named, in England.
We're still finding new ones...in Scotland!
A pleasure for tom challands & me to join Victoria Gill 💙💛 on BBC Radio 4 Inside Science, talking about an exciting sauropod bone from Skye, found by Tone Blakesley
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Some (slightly) positive #deforestation news 💚
⁦Matt McGrath⁩ bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

Fascinating day at #ASSW2024
Now brimming with Arctic story ideas (just have to turn more than one of them into an actual project rather than just fun facts I share with my long-suffering husband)

I mean, just look at him

Please do think about the fate of your party balloons 💚

This research involved an experiment testing how hard a dog tried to get to a sausage. I am very much here for this methodology. bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

Well. Brilliant. Thanks Royal Mail.
You left a package in the cardboard recycling bin, which has now been taken away to be recycled. I wouldn’t call that a “safe place”

Each sand grain is like a little rechargeable battery.
Wonderfully intriguing story by ⁦Georgina Rannard

⁩ ⁦⁦Aberystwyth University⁩ bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

Grabbed by the dorsal fin and eviscerated.
What a truly awesome predator bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

Sea slugs are known for their beauty, according to my BBC science buddy ⁦Helen Briggs⁩. 🤔
Cool story. We still have lots to learn about life in the ocean - even right off our own coasts. bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

Ever such a fun, noisy, fishy headline from ⁦Matt McGrath⁩ bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

Some intriguing and delightfully scruffy box labelling here ⁦Steve Brusatte⁩

Actual, real sunshine! (And the most splendid dog in the world) 💛