Tom Clarke
@t0mclark3.bsky.social
Science Editor at Sky News in London
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How late will a pregnancy test work? Can it still give a positive result 1,000 years after conception?
A test to see if the skeletons of ancient women were in the early stages of pregnancy, or had recently given birth, when they died is being developed: www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
A test to see if the skeletons of ancient women were in the early stages of pregnancy, or had recently given birth, when they died is being developed: www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
Pregnancy test created … for 1,000-year-old skeletons
It has been very tricky for archaeologists to identify women who died while carrying a baby or in childbirth — until now
www.thetimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:20 PM
How late will a pregnancy test work? Can it still give a positive result 1,000 years after conception?
A test to see if the skeletons of ancient women were in the early stages of pregnancy, or had recently given birth, when they died is being developed: www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
A test to see if the skeletons of ancient women were in the early stages of pregnancy, or had recently given birth, when they died is being developed: www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
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So the president of the United States plans to meet with Putin in Hungary, and when a reporter asked where that plan came from, this was the reply of the United States government www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
October 17, 2025 at 1:23 PM
So the president of the United States plans to meet with Putin in Hungary, and when a reporter asked where that plan came from, this was the reply of the United States government www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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Okay, today is physics #NobelPrize day, so there's just enough time for another instalment of...
PHYSICS NOBEL PRIZES YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF – PART 2
In 1912, a Swedish inventor called Gustaf Dalén beat Albert Einstein and Max Planck (inter alia) to the biggest prize in physics. How? Well...🧵🧪⚛️
PHYSICS NOBEL PRIZES YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF – PART 2
In 1912, a Swedish inventor called Gustaf Dalén beat Albert Einstein and Max Planck (inter alia) to the biggest prize in physics. How? Well...🧵🧪⚛️
October 7, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Okay, today is physics #NobelPrize day, so there's just enough time for another instalment of...
PHYSICS NOBEL PRIZES YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF – PART 2
In 1912, a Swedish inventor called Gustaf Dalén beat Albert Einstein and Max Planck (inter alia) to the biggest prize in physics. How? Well...🧵🧪⚛️
PHYSICS NOBEL PRIZES YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF – PART 2
In 1912, a Swedish inventor called Gustaf Dalén beat Albert Einstein and Max Planck (inter alia) to the biggest prize in physics. How? Well...🧵🧪⚛️
Perhaps it's just me, but I can't get over the fact that in our digital age our electricity grid relies on the decidedly analogue insulating power of paper and oil: news.sky.com/story/nation...
National Grid's maintenance the damning failure identified by report into fire that sparked Heathrow chaos
The "catastrophic" blaze that forced Heathrow to shut for 16 hours could have been avoided if a fault at a nearby National Grid substation, first spotted in 2018, had been fixed, according to a new re...
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July 2, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Perhaps it's just me, but I can't get over the fact that in our digital age our electricity grid relies on the decidedly analogue insulating power of paper and oil: news.sky.com/story/nation...
I once watched a pigeon ride the tube from leafy Maida Vale to food rich Paddington station. But this is a whole other level!
A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius.
This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology
This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology
June 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I once watched a pigeon ride the tube from leafy Maida Vale to food rich Paddington station. But this is a whole other level!
British fishermen are up in arms…
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Friend or foe? And what's causing the "explosion" of octopus in UK waters?
news.sky.com/story/boom-o...
Friend or foe? And what's causing the "explosion" of octopus in UK waters?
news.sky.com/story/boom-o...
Boom or bust for fishing industry as octopuses swarm in UK waters?
Regulators, fishers, academics and conservation bodies are trying to work out what has fuelled the "octopus bloom" in the South West, and whether the creatures are here to stay.
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May 27, 2025 at 5:07 PM
British fishermen are up in arms…
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May 23, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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How electricity grids fail - and why restoring Spain and Portugal's power will be a nightmare
How electricity grids fail - and why restoring Spain and Portugal's power will be a nightmare
We rarely think about how essential and reliable electricity grids are until they fail.
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April 28, 2025 at 5:28 PM
How electricity grids fail - and why restoring Spain and Portugal's power will be a nightmare
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US representative at London energy security summit Tommy Joyce says climate policies “harms human lives” and that Biden regulated oil and gas out of existence in favour of “net zero agenda”.
But US oil and gas production reached record levels under Biden
But US oil and gas production reached record levels under Biden
April 24, 2025 at 9:44 AM
US representative at London energy security summit Tommy Joyce says climate policies “harms human lives” and that Biden regulated oil and gas out of existence in favour of “net zero agenda”.
But US oil and gas production reached record levels under Biden
But US oil and gas production reached record levels under Biden
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Government to decide on regional pricing by summer, Sky News understands
Meanwhile Trump's guy at energy security summit quotes the Bible to back up US energy policy, says God's "golden rule" is to love your neighbour, which means selling them oil, gas and coal
news.sky.com/story/govern...
Meanwhile Trump's guy at energy security summit quotes the Bible to back up US energy policy, says God's "golden rule" is to love your neighbour, which means selling them oil, gas and coal
news.sky.com/story/govern...
Government to decide on 'postcode pricing' plan for electricity bills by summer
So-called "zonal pricing" could see the south of England pay more for electricity bills than parts of Scotland. It comes as energy secretary Ed Miliband doubles down on the case for more clean power, ...
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April 24, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Government to decide on regional pricing by summer, Sky News understands
Meanwhile Trump's guy at energy security summit quotes the Bible to back up US energy policy, says God's "golden rule" is to love your neighbour, which means selling them oil, gas and coal
news.sky.com/story/govern...
Meanwhile Trump's guy at energy security summit quotes the Bible to back up US energy policy, says God's "golden rule" is to love your neighbour, which means selling them oil, gas and coal
news.sky.com/story/govern...
Its the bonds what done it. Great analysis by my colleague Ian King news.sky.com/story/trump-...
Donald Trump has finally blinked - but it's not the stock markets that have forced him to act
The US president had brushed off the sour equity market reaction to his tariffs as being akin to "medicine" that had to be taken. But, as ever, it is the bond markets that have forced Mr Trump to blin...
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April 10, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Its the bonds what done it. Great analysis by my colleague Ian King news.sky.com/story/trump-...
Top tip if you're home late and reheating pasta carbonara: don't
March 31, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Top tip if you're home late and reheating pasta carbonara: don't
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I remember it being unpleasant & a lot less fudge-y.
March 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I remember it being unpleasant & a lot less fudge-y.
This is an important point. Unless people plan now for replacing their boiler when it -- probably unexpectedly-- packs up, they'll have little choice but to get a new gas boiler. Should advice be: sort home energy efficiency now, upgrade heating system so you're "heat pump ready"?
The UK’s climate advisers here envision gas boilers only being replaced by heat pumps when they break down. But that relies on wait times for heat pumps being very low. Nobody’s going to live in a cold house for months waiting for an installer! www.theccc.org.uk/publication/...
The Seventh Carbon Budget - Climate Change Committee
Presented to the Secretary of State pursuant to Section 34 of the Climate Change Act 2008. Footnotes have…
www.theccc.org.uk
February 26, 2025 at 7:42 AM
This is an important point. Unless people plan now for replacing their boiler when it -- probably unexpectedly-- packs up, they'll have little choice but to get a new gas boiler. Should advice be: sort home energy efficiency now, upgrade heating system so you're "heat pump ready"?
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Interested in using data on human behaviour to understand and predict epidemics? Come do a PhD with us! Deadline 7 March – please get in touch if interested!
www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-a...
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February 10, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Interested in using data on human behaviour to understand and predict epidemics? Come do a PhD with us! Deadline 7 March – please get in touch if interested!
www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-a...
www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-a...
Estonia flips the switch
⚡️ The historic moment of Estonia leaving the Russian-fed power grid.
On February 8, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia left Russia and Belarus energy system. By the end of the day today, they will have joined the European grid.
On February 8, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia left Russia and Belarus energy system. By the end of the day today, they will have joined the European grid.
February 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Estonia flips the switch
Make the Moon Great Again? We delved into the future of human space exploration under Donald Trump news.sky.com/story/make-t...
Make the Moon Great Again—or lose it to China? The new space race heats up
Why despite all the technological advances since America first landed on the Moon, is its bid to return so fraught with uncertainty? The answer isn't really rocket science, it's politics.
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February 7, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Make the Moon Great Again? We delved into the future of human space exploration under Donald Trump news.sky.com/story/make-t...
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Saturday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the *lowest* on record (JAXA data)
• about 640,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,280,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,850,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,290,000 km² below the 1980s mean
Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
• about 640,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,280,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,850,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,290,000 km² below the 1980s mean
Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
February 1, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Saturday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the *lowest* on record (JAXA data)
• about 640,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,280,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,850,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,290,000 km² below the 1980s mean
Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
• about 640,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,280,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,850,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,290,000 km² below the 1980s mean
Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
Hight temperature superconducting magnets anyone? This is about fusion -- but so many other current and future applications news.sky.com/story/the-wo...
The wonder material which could hold the key to near-limitless energy
A rare-earth barium copper oxide (REBCO) is now being used by an Oxfordshire-based company for its superconducting properties in the hope it will make nuclear fusion a practical reality.
news.sky.com
January 18, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Hight temperature superconducting magnets anyone? This is about fusion -- but so many other current and future applications news.sky.com/story/the-wo...
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Don't let the clickbait ass title confuse you, this is as fine a tribute as you'll get today www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqZp...
David Lynch being a madman for a relentless 8 minutes and 30 seconds | cosmavoid
YouTube video by cosmavoid
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January 16, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Don't let the clickbait ass title confuse you, this is as fine a tribute as you'll get today www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqZp...
Hi mycology Bluesky, do the clear beads of fluid produced by mould have a name? And if so, what is it? Also, can I feed these beans to my children?
January 16, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Hi mycology Bluesky, do the clear beads of fluid produced by mould have a name? And if so, what is it? Also, can I feed these beans to my children?