First known Neanderthal family discovered in Siberian cave nature.com/articles/d4158… Ancient DNA from closely related individuals offers fresh insight into Neanderthals’ lives and social structures.

‘A million reasonably intelligent men or women gathered at the ultimate interdisciplinary conference would rarely, if ever, match an Einstein or a Darwin’ James Lovelock quoted by ⁦Roger Highfield⁩ in this ⁦⁩ insightful essay ⁦Aeon+Psyche⁩ aeon.co/essays/james-l…

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A singular scientist

Fascinating long read from the great Roger Highfield about James Lovelock – a scientist (or iconoclast) who did things differently

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We used to have the huge Shipping Galleries at the Science Museum. You can still visit them, in the form of this ghostly point cloud created by ScanLAB Projects youtube.com/watch?v=gDTbFh…

You can hear #BBCInsideScience recorded in the National Science and Media Museum on the BBC's 100th birthday here:
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Huge pleasure to introduce Victoria Gill 💙💛 and her excellent panel, with BBC DG Tim Davie, and many thanks to the BBC Head of History, Robert Seatter!

James Lovelock, a remarkable scientist, by ⁦Roger Highfield⁩ ⁦Aeon+Psyche⁩ aeon.co/essays/james-l…

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Thank you to the brilliant group of people who supported our innovative exhibition about the science of music at Science and Industry Museum - and to Dr Emily Scott-Dearing, Jane Brown and the team!

Secret behind spectacular blooms in world’s driest desert is invisible to human eyes eurekalert.org/news-releases/… via EurekAlert! @frontiersin

Rewritten genetic code allows bacteria to fend off viral attacks. Latest, from the remarkable Jason Chin Lab at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Background, from me: blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/next-generatio…

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Overcoming racism in science, from nature nature.com/immersive/d428…

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And to Jurrat Hasan and Isabel Harding of the Medical Research Council, who have been brilliant!