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20 bird species can understand each other’s anti-cuckoo call

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Nature @nature.com · 1d

BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit"

Stay tuned for more.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 9d

I may have found my defining quote.

Pair this with my pinned post and you will see what I mean!

From a poster called “just shower thoughts“ reading: when people talk about traveling to the past, they worry about radically, changing the present by doing something small, barely anyone in the present to really thinks that they can radically change the future by doing something small.

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 5d

Really cool story - bird species from across the world make the same sound to warn against cuckoos, and they can even understand each other. Feeds into ideas Darwin had about the origin of language! www.newscientist.com/article/2498...

Several species of birds from different continents use and understand similar alarm calls when they see an invader that might lay an egg in their nest – this shared call hints at the origin of languag...

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Dr Adam Levy @climateadam.bsky.social · 6d

my gosh. truly an end of an era.

Nature @nature.com · 6d

Jane Goodall, known for her pioneering work with chimpanzees, has passed away aged 91

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Jane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed science

The primatologist challenged what it meant to be a scientist.

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 6d

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

A printed poem which reads:

I hav for breakfast Weetabix

I hav for lunch some meat

I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat

Peter Hazel, 5

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Nick Petrić Howe @nickpetrichowe.bsky.social · 6d

Haha, auto-pic by YouTube. For the actual thumbnail I picked this much more flattering shot I promise 😅

Nature reporter Lizzie Gibney pointing at a picture of a 'time crystal'

Nick Petrić Howe @nickpetrichowe.bsky.social · 7d

More fun science in the future!

Nick Petrić Howe @nickpetrichowe.bsky.social · 7d

DNA can also be a computer... Which is cool if you want to make teeny tiny machines that could work inside our bodies and do other cool stuff. How to power them has been a of problem, though, but these researchers figured out how to make them run on heat at 13:05 here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Ancient viral DNA helps human embryos develop

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 01 October 2025

'How is this possible?' — two species birthed by one mother

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Nick Petrić Howe @nickpetrichowe.bsky.social · 7d

I also made a video about some very odd ants... the queens can produce offspring of two totally different species. WEIRD.
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See a 'time crystal' for the first time

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Nick Petrić Howe @nickpetrichowe.bsky.social · 7d

TIME CRYSTALS are a thing, and not just a sci-fi thing. Now, physicists have made these baffling states of matter into something you can actually see, as @lizziegibney.bsky.social explains here:
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Research misconduct: how the scientific community is fighting back

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Nick Petrić Howe @nickpetrichowe.bsky.social · 7d

I finished my two-part series on errors and misconduct in science. It's a big intractable problem, but researchers, journalists, sleuths and organisations are working hard to tackle it.

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Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 08 September 2025

Research misconduct: how the scientific community is fighting back

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Nick Petrić Howe @nickpetrichowe.bsky.social · 7d

I've been a bit rubbish at the ol' social media recently, as I've been making lots of cool things. A short thread.

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 8d

This is just incredible. Someone made not just a computer, but an *entire working LLM* out of (438 million) minecraft blocks www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

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Nick Petrić Howe @nickpetrichowe.bsky.social · 14d

Thanks so much for talking to me!

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Stephanie M. Lee @stephaniemlee.bsky.social · 23d

I'm on @nature.com's podcast talking to @nickpetrichowe.bsky.social about the role that journalists can play in combating research misconduct. Honored to appear alongside @jamesheathers.bsky.social, @abalkina.bsky.social, @richvn.bsky.social and many others: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 08 September 2025

Fusion energy gets a boost from cold fusion chemistry

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · Jun 2

I'm a deeply flawed individual, but I bring joy to the world.

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Nick Petrić Howe @nickpetrichowe.bsky.social · Aug 20

You can hear all about it here: www.nature.com/articles/d41... with some great insights from Jennifer Dionne and Amy McKeown-Green

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 18 August 2025

Revisiting the cold case of cold fusion - Nature

Nick Petrić Howe @nickpetrichowe.bsky.social · Aug 20

Six years later, and they showed that using electrochemical methods to load palladium with deuterium they could boost fusion rates. You see, one of the issues with fusion is that fusion events are rare, so by filling up palladium with deuterium they could increase the odds.

Nick Petrić Howe @nickpetrichowe.bsky.social · Aug 20

In 1989, researchers claimed to have demonstrated 'cold fusion' — nuclear fusion at room temperature. This was quickly dismissed as there was no good evidence that it happened.

But, Curtis Berlinguette and colleagues wanted to see if we could learn something from it: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Three years of investigation by a multi-disciplinary team into claims of ‘cold fusion’ found no evidence that the phenomenon exists, but identified a parameter space potentially worthy of further expl...

Fusion energy gets a boost from cold fusion chemistry

Nick Petrić Howe @nickpetrichowe.bsky.social · Aug 20

Fusion energy has got a boost from some chemistry inspired by the controversial case of cold fusion!

By using electrochemistry to trap deuterium in palladium, researchers boosted fusion rates by 15%.

Hear about it here @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 18 August 2025

Tiny flier could soar through the mesosphere powered only by light

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Nick Petrić Howe @nickpetrichowe.bsky.social · Aug 20

Light-powered flying saucers, Victorian toys, and @danjfox.bsky.social animations. This video has it all!

And they could help understand a weird part of the atmosphere known as the mesosphere, that's too thin for balloons and too heavy for satellites.

Dan Fox @danjfox.bsky.social · Aug 19

New film. Tiny solar-powered fliers. Mesopheric flotsam youtu.be/r-3OZGuHOvQ

Why did researchers stick a duck to a rock? To show off their super glue

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Nick Petrić Howe @nickpetrichowe.bsky.social · Aug 20

Hi Dani, I make podcasts and videos about science for Nature. Could I be added to the feed?

Here's a recent example of my work: www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-my...

Why did researchers stick a duck to a rock? To show off their super glue

Nick Petrić Howe @nickpetrichowe.bsky.social · Aug 14

To quote another one of the comments, "the American mind cannot comprehend rhyming duck and rock"

Nick Petrić Howe @nickpetrichowe.bsky.social · Aug 13

The video in question, you can make up your own mind!
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