Intriguing paper in this week's Science: a new, much cheaper approach for MRI scanning

It's an MRI scanner that uses a 0.05 Tesla magnet (vs. the current 1.5 - 3 T) and operates at a fraction of the cost (~$22,000 for the hardware), time (<10 minutes), and noise of a current…

Brain biopsies on ‘vulnerable’ patients at Mount Sinai set off alarm bells at FDA, documents show statnews.com/2024/05/01/bra…

worth reading this on demise of Future of Humanity Institute theguardian.com/technology/202…

The parents of a girl killed when a Land Rover crashed through a fence at her school say the Met Commissioner has told them their case is taking so long due to a lack of forensic officers.

bbc.in/3w6TxfQ

Also check the relative article by Guardian and Hannah Devlin , including a brief interview of mine regarding the importance of our findings: theguardian.com/science/2024/a…

Congratulations to The #PressAwards Science and Technology Journalist of the Year category winner Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times

World’s top cosmologists convene to question conventional view of the universe
fyi Brian Cox Neil deGrasse Tyson
source: Hannah Devlin
theguardian.com/science/2024/a…

Gaia spots Milky Way's most massive black hole of stellar origin! It's 33 solar masses, dormant, 2nd closest to Earth at ~2000 light years away, part of a wide binary with an old giant star, with estimated age of 11 Gyr: youtu.be/cU00B-6DeSQ #GaiaBH3 cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/iow_2…

For those interested in the dark matter story today, Jonathan Oppenheim is the scientist behind the work and he's giving a talk at UCL next week. Expect it will be worth going to... 👇

Dark matter join a union.
30% of the universe to be replaced by unregulated wobbly spacetime.

Hannah Devlin So clearly explained! So interesting! Exemplary piece of scientific writing. These are difficult concepts and I am in no way a scientist but I drank in every word.

Could 'wobbly' spacetime replace the need for dark matter? theguardian.com/science/2024/m…

Latest from #JWST : Astronomers detect ‘waterworld with a boiling ocean’ in deep space theguardian.com/science/2024/m…

My daughter loves this book - and pleasingly low effort WBD costume. Red coat, ribbons, few splodges of paint, job done. Happy birthday!

ooh UK now within range for the doomed satellite

European Space Agency ESA Earth Observation 🚨 New data! 🚨

#ERS2reentry at 17:05 UTC (18:05 CET)
Uncertainty is still approx. 30 minutes.

Some personal news:

Tomorrow will be my last day at The Times, after 11½ years working with some amazing colleagues.

I'm moving to The Guardian to be Global Health Correspondent later this month.

Stories, tips and ideas on my new beat welcome!

Honoured to be shortlisted for Environment Journalist of the Year at The Press Awards alongside fantastic colleagues for our work on carbon offsetting.

It was a massive team effort overseen by the brilliant Bibi van der Zee

thepressawards.com/shortlist-2024

Happy bday to Alexia Lopez and her newly discovered #BigRing ! 🥂 While the bdays are a chance alignment, the Big Ring & Giant Arc don't seem to be.
Great news coverage by Hannah Devlin in The Guardian: theguardian.com/science/2024/j…
Thanks for the interview!
#Cosmology #astronomy