Tom Clarke

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

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...

Thanks, that explains it. Transition gotta start somewhere. Great to learn about EDP in Portugal. Is industrial business case stronger there due to higher gas price/curtailed renewables?

Did I read somewhere this first application is in enhanced oil recovery? If so, isn’t that a bit of an odd application for heat storage given decarb potential of the technology?

In response to HuffPost’s query about who suggested Budapest, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt responded, “Your mom did,” and White House communications director Steven Cheung replied: “Your mom.”

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-...

UK must prepare for 2C of warming by 2050, government told for first time The goal is hotter and sooner than most official previous advice, and is a nod to the high chance of breaching the ambitious Paris Agreement limit. National advisers on the Climate Change Committee ho...

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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...🧵🧪⚛️

Trump links paracetamol use in pregnancy to increased risk of autism - here's what the evidence says While most doctors would advise women only to take medicines in pregnancy when necessary, avoiding paracetamol could do more harm than good.

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The chilling document that traces nuclear weapons back to Britain - and the threat we now face Nuclear weapons have not been used in warfare since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 80 years ago this week. However, experts warn today's conflicts put the world in a precarious state.

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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...

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!

British fishermen are up in arms…

For the rest of us? We need to stop. Not only does the International Council on Clean Climate (ICCC) reckon that the extra weight and bulk of SUVs outmatches the gains in efficiency we’ve made with improved petrol engines and electric power, but more recently Imperial College London has released a study that shows you’re 44 per cent more likely to die if you’re struck by an SUV as opposed to a more conventional saloon, hatchback or estate. For children, chillingly, that figure rises to 130 per cent. I’ve been known to soften my SUV stance in the face of examples that are charming, or stylish, or notably comfortable, practical or good to drive, but those figures are enough to make any potential SUV purchaser blanch at the prospect. Or, at least, they ought to.

Wow. An honest review of an SUV.

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The anti-Net Zero lobby has been quick to highlight the fact Spain was at the time of the outage relying on more than 60% solar generation. I read it’s unlikely solar caused grid failure but could lack of dispatchable power have been a factor in subsequent collapse?

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.

How electricity grids fail - and why restoring Spain and Portugal's power will be a nightmare

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

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, ...

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

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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...

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

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"?

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!

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Estonia flips the switch

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.

Make the Moon Great Again? We delved into the future of human space exploration under Donald Trump news.sky.com/story/make-t...

Right there with you. Who knew conditioner would be the Archduke Ferdinand of our times

Well that's something at least!

Nor was I. She deserves a statue!

Line graph time series of 2025's daily Arctic sea ice extent compared to decadal averages from the 1980s to the 2010s. The decadal averages are shown with different colored lines with purple for the 1980s, blue for the 1990s, green for the 2000s, and white for the 2010s. Thin white lines are also shown for each year from 2000 to 2024. 2025 is shown with a thick gold line. There is a long-term decreasing trend in ice extent for every day of the year shown on this graph between January and April by looking at the decadal average line positions.

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

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I know. But imagine you staggered away from Season 2 half way and missed the Christmas ep! About as fun as norovirus, but the best bit of telly to come out of America in years IMO! Ok season 3 not as good -- but even Mrs C thought birth ep (8?) was amazing and she's a harsh judge of screen mothers.

I hear you. But now glad I endured the mauling.

The real message behind Trump's withdrawal of US from the Paris climate agreement Behind Donald Trump's "Drill baby, drill!" rhetoric, there is a wider political message in his ordering of the US to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, both to those who supported him, and to ...

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