Clive Cookson

Senior science writer, Financial Times. All views are mine or borrowed from other people — and not necessarily the FT's.

[Clive Cookson @clivecookson]

A new contender emerges for the location of animals' magnetic sensing. We've had eyes, ears and beaks. Now a study in Germany suggests the liver https://t.co/CKG4K5LV7k via @ft

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Neanderthal dentist drilled into decayed tooth more than 40,000 years before the earliest record of dentistry by ancestral modern humans. https://t.co/wjVKMTV0fo via @ft

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Biology and pharma research will be early adopters of quantum computing. Studies show the potential of quantum combined with conventional supercomputing to model molecular interactions https://t.co/hvAbFyJEC7 via @ft

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The exposome is emerging as a key concept in biology. It complements the genome by measuring the effect of all environmental exposures you experience from conception to death. To get a flavour, watch me talking to 3 experts at the recent AAAS in Phoenix https://t.co/j3royhfQ2G

[Financial Times @FT]

Europe and China are launching a joint space mission to study how Earth’s magnetic field shields the planet from harmful solar radiation, a rare example of collaboration as space competition intensifies.

Read the full story here: https://t.co/Wixg0Dj3Wa

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Ag tech giant Syngenta is to build a $120mn crop bioscience centre in the UK -- in contrast to drug companies pulling R&D investments from the country because they dislike the government's pharma policies https://t.co/JrOCicCaGe via @ft

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Looking beyond Darwin at the Future of Species. An excellent book by @AdrianWoolfson on the potential of synthetic biology to rewrite life https://t.co/ybDpmNf0Zn via @ft

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I'm not confident that Nasa will return astronauts to the moon before China gets there, even after rejigging and accelerating its Artemis program https://t.co/TbRXPAsib5 via @ft

[Financial Times @FT]

Beijing backs brain implant push to rival Elon Musk’s Neuralink https://t.co/Iv24t3mQ6T

[Clive Cookson @clivecookson]

Back from @AAAS in Phoenix where scientists expressed relief at avoiding the sharpest funding cuts proposed by Trump - but lamented the other damaging effects of the administration's attempts to skew US research in their political direction https://t.co/Gj9CLcr62T via @ft

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European scientists build Earth’s ‘digital twin’ to sharpen weather and climate forecasts. https://t.co/ma1BQEsz5m via @ft

[Peggy Hollinger @peggyhollinger]

a milestone moment for ESA - the begining of a new role? European nations to fund military-grade surveillance network in space https://t.co/jkFPxM4ruR via @ft

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A tide of fabricated research risks scientific integrity. Powerful OpEd by Bernhard Sabel. https://t.co/I1k9v6jVN9 via @ft

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The most recent AMR surveillance charts the continued rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs https://t.co/RCG4TSnVSC via @ft

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The latest in our series about longevity companies. A sisterly enterprise seeking to stop unwanted cell death. @LinkGevity https://t.co/GZEZi2u8yf via @ft

[Techmeme @Techmeme]

Scientists detail Delphi-2M, an AI model trained on large-scale health records that can predict susceptibility to over 1,000 diseases decades into the future (@clivecookson / Financial Times)

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Gut guru Tim Spector moves on from popularising the human microbiome -- trillions of beneficial bacteria in our intestines -- to urge us to add a further multitude of microbes by making and eating as much fermented food as we can @timspector https://t.co/j85sh2daDe via @ft

[Nicholas Wright @nicholasdwright]

Important new real-world evidence that AI may harm performance. @clivecookson @FT

https://t.co/o2QREpNbA2 Routine AI assistance hits skills of health experts performing colonoscopies

[Financial Times @FT]

Experts warn the materials were causing extensive disease ‘at every stage’ of human life, ahead of UN talks on a global plastics treaty https://t.co/wcvr22EITz

[Clive Cookson @clivecookson]

@natashaloder @absw @FT Thanks Natasha. Well done to you too for your audio prize. Sorry you weren’t there for mutual congratulations