Tony Tyson first dreamt up the Vera Rubin Observatory more than 30 years ago
He is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2025
go.nature.com/3N6lts8
PRO TIP: If you're going to lash out at reporters for questioning your stamina, don't fall asleep mid-rant.
Buy a book.
Any book, it doesn't matter which. The one you've been looking forward to, the one with the title that made you laugh, the weighty award-winner you've been meaning to get to. Whatever.
Treat yourself. Step away from it all. In this time of gross ignorance & madness, read something.
Recent crime statistics show that two farmers were killed in South Africa over six months, which is at odds with claims US President Donald Trump is making. Meanwhile, in that same period, there were 575 gang-related murders in a single province, an arena that also has deep political undertones.
Antarctic ice melt triggers further melting: Evidence for cascading feedbacks 9,000 years ago | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
Happy 158th Birthday, Marie Skłodowska Curie! She was the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize and the first person to receive the honor twice.
In 2017, #ScienceBooks toured the dynamics that established her as "the most iconic of all female scientists." https://scim.ag/47tkKYA
Attorney General Pam Bondi vowed to target “hate speech,” but had to clarify her remarks after receiving criticism from legal experts, media voices and conservatives who were quick to remind Bondi that “hate speech” is protected by the First Amendment.
www.poynter.org/commentary/2...
It’s rare for networks to drop a show in response to political pressure, but with the suspension of “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” critics warn that networks are letting the pressure shape what reaches the air, despite protected speech. www.poynter.org/commentary/2...
Here is a list of media organizations, the vulnerabilities they may face and how they’ve responded to political pressure from the Trump administration.
www.poynter.org/business-wor...
From sensible, science-backed advice about nutrition and immune health to thought-provoking lessons from mycology and geology, this year’s #ScienceBooks fall reading list investigates questions of survival, community, and connection as pathways to human flourishing. https://scim.ag/3VqcKSN
Amid Trump research cuts, visa restrictions, and international conflicts, some winners sit out this year’s Ig Nobels. https://scim.ag/4mqbzOe
Beer drinkers were 44% more attractive to mosquitoes than people who had abstained for at least 12 hours, cannabis users were 35% more attractive, and those who had slept with someone else the night before were 46% more attractive, new research finds. https://scim.ag/3Vk5rMw
Scientists have created the first ever viruses designed by AI, and they’re capable of hunting down and killing strains of E. coli
go.nature.com/4nA8E6p
“I was fired for holding the line on scientific integrity. The stakes are not theoretical — we have already seen the largest [US] measles outbreak in more than 30 years, which claimed the lives of two children.”
go.nature.com/4213aJO
From publicly demanding that Pam Bondi go after his political enemies to the reported decision to close a Tom Homan bribery case, the Justice Department is basically Donald Trump's personal law firm now.
Hilary Mantel championed emerging writers - a new prize in her memory will help them get published
A 90-second failure of Newark Airport’s air-traffic safety systems, which blacked out communication to planes carrying thousands of passengers, has exposed a new level of crisis in U.S. air travel.
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Breaking News: A federal prosecutor interrogated the The New England Journal of Medicine — which is considered the world’s most prestigious medical journal — in what its editor described as a “vaguely threatening” letter.
It was never just about schools, it was never just about libraries, and it isn't actually about the books.
It's about finding a way to banish entire people, entire ideas, out of society, back into the closet or worse.
www.chron.com/politics/art...
“Sooner or later, dictators shut down the free press. In America, that might not be so easy, but it pays to be prepared,” writes Robert Kuttner, co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect.
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Several research institutes in Germany are joining a worldwide grassroots effort to save science data sets that researchers fear could be deleted by US President Donald Trump’s administration, Nature has learnt.
https://go.nature.com/42uEw50
The US regime’s policy failure - by the ex-heroin addict and anti-vaccine Tsar, RFK junior - now in charge of health
The US faces a measles endemic with more than 850,000 cases within 25 years if vaccination rates remain the same.
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Breaking news: The United States faces millions of measles cases over the next 25 years if vaccination rates for the disease drop 10 percent, according to new research published Thursday.
Breaking News: A federal jury ruled against Sarah Palin in her yearslong defamation lawsuit against The New York Times.
The Earth that we’re meant to honor on Earth Day is in far worse trouble than anyone could have predicted 55 years ago. In today’s daily newsletter, Bill McKibben writes about the failure—and hope—of Earth Day.
The peak of the Lyrid shower this year is expected around April 21 and 22, when the tail is at its peak.
Hitler used tariffs to “liberate” Germany from a globalized world order—careening the economy backwards, Timothy W. Ryback writes.
Kamala Harris: “he’s a fascist”
Gen. Milley: “he’s a fascist”
John Kelly: “he’s a fascist”
Historians of fascism: “he’s a fascist”
The NY/DC political media: “how did we all fail to see that Donald Trump was a fascist?”
