Senior Editor at New Scientist. Co-host of the Dead Planets Society podcast.
New York, USA
Joined November 2006
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NEW: Everyone’s hoping asteroid 2024 YR4 doesn’t hit Earth. It probably won’t; the odds are 2.1%.
But, rather awesomely, there’s a (slim) chance that it hits the Moon instead, with the force of 343 atomic bombs. And we’d see it happen!
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I like the way this makes me think about crosswords. I do them every day and have never before considered how the words fill in like water oozing through a sponge until it's full
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“Rain drops on Saturn’s moon Titan are the size of tennis balls and fall so slowly you can dodge them — which gives me an idea for a new sport”
@chrislintott at #NewScientistLive
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If you're a science writer/journalist, I'd highly recommend @hvthomson's newsletter (and I'm not just saying that because I'm in the latest edition!) She's currently running a series on the art of pitching your stories to editors... it's invaluable advice theideasfactory.beehiiv.com/…
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Exciting job at New Scientist - come and lead our features coverage! newscientist.com/nsj/job/140…
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This Saturday I will be hosting New Scientist's masterclass on the brain and consciousness in NYC. Snag a ticket below to join me and six other experts in the field as we discuss the latest discoveries in how and why we think. See you there 😃newscientist.com/science-eve…
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Calling young inventors and creative minds - scientists need your #lego ideas!
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It was great fun being a guest on the Dead Planets Society podcast with @chelswhyte and @DownHereOnEarth !
When you have questions about how many moons you could pack into Earth's orbit, who do you call? @sraymond_astro of course! He joined us for the latest episode of Dead Planets Society to figure out how many moons and moonmoons we could have newscientist.com/article/243…
When you have questions about how many moons you could pack into Earth's orbit, who do you call? @sraymond_astro of course! He joined us for the latest episode of Dead Planets Society to figure out how many moons and moonmoons we could have newscientist.com/article/243…
And how far down the moonmoon ladder can we go? If we want a moon and a moonmoon and a moonmoonmoon, how big would they be? @sraymond_astro says the rule of thumb is that to go down one level, you have to go down in mass by a factor of 100,000.
I've been saying this forever. TIME IS A LIE: newscientist.com/article/243…
Our staff recommended their favorite sci-fi books and my contribution is the wonderfully weird not-book 17776 by @jon_bois. I love how much humor and heart we get in the 3 space probes that show us the distant future of football.
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Side note: Reading the messages from JUICE (the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) is exactly like texting with @DownHereOnEarth. At points I wondered if our phones had been hacked.
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Also, “nine spiders per millilitre of core removed” is the most demented metric I’ve ever heard.
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This chat with @chelswhyte and @DownHereOnEarth for @newscientist and their wild Dead Planets Society podcast was SO much fun.
Give it a listen if you fancy destroying Mars. ;)
This week on Dead Planets Society, we take a swing at Mars. We're going after the Red Planet with a comically large magnet -- can we pull out its iron core and shred the planet to bits? @SquigglyVolcano joined us for some destructive shenanigans: newscientist.com/article/243…
This week on Dead Planets Society, we take a swing at Mars. We're going after the Red Planet with a comically large magnet -- can we pull out its iron core and shred the planet to bits? @SquigglyVolcano joined us for some destructive shenanigans: newscientist.com/article/243…
And what becomes of Mars? If we empty its core, wouldn't it just crunch down into a smaller planet? NOT IF WE FILL IT BACK UP WITH SOMETHING.
We suggest jelly or custard, like a donut. And some other horrific ideas (listen to find out how many spiders it would take to fill Mars)
@ThePlanetaryGuy we destroyed Mars, just for you (and us). What would you fill Mars's empty core with, hmmm? Is it worse than @DownHereOnEarth's suggestion of spiders??