Mathematician who reshaped number theory wins prestigious Abel prize nature.com/articles/d4158… Gerd Faltings showed that arithmetic equations have a finite number of solutions.
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The Great Exhibition Road Festival is returning 6-7 June with free exhibits, hands-on workshops and exciting talks, perfect for all ages. Sign up now to be the first to hear about updates and ticket releases!
greatexhibitionroadfestival.co.uk
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CRISPR makes enhanced cancer-fighting immune cells *inside* mice nature.com/articles/d4158…
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Is the Government diverting money away from blue sky research towards government scientific priorities in yet another bid to shackle science to the economy? Over to @BBCPallab
Well, if it walks like a duck…
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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AI software that can be embedded into smart glasses has won a £1m prize for technology to help people with dementia. theguardian.com/society/2026/m…
Roger Highfield@RogerHighfield
And l am in the mighty @DesignMuseum to meet the winners of the Longitude Prize on Dementia! dementia.longitudeprize.org
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Yes, Leonov’s first spacewalk story is amazing blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/remembering-al…
And it was fascinating to grill him about the plan to put the Soviet hammer and sickle on the first flag on the Moon, rather than the Stars and Stripes blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/cosmonaut-alex…
Nicholas Booth@Thievesbook
And nearly perished when his spacesuit ballooned and couldn't get back in the airlock. I am still very jealous that @rogerhighfield met him and I didn't.
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And l am in the mighty @DesignMuseum to meet the winners of the Longitude Prize on Dementia!
dementia.longitudeprize.org
Anneka Rice@AnnekaRice
I’m on @BBCOne tonight to announce the winner of The Longitude Prize on Dementia. Inventors worldwide have competed for £1m to take their invention to the next level. An honour to be there when the winners find out their device could change lives for dementia sufferers 🩵
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A New Era of Biomolecular Simulation by blending quantum computing and GPU-accelerated supercomputing, featuring my bestselling coauthor, @PVCoveney, with @nvidia, @LRZ_DE @meetIQM @LMU_Muenchen @TU_Muenchen lrz.de/en/news/detail…
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In our Energy Revolution gallery in the Science Museum, you can see part of the pioneering Zero Energy Thermonuclear Assembly, or ZETA, a nuclear fusion experiment from the latter half of the fifties: collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co5496…
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Today's announcement is also interesting because the international flagship fusion project ITER is way off track: science.org/content/articl…
Still, when I visited ITER in 2022, it was jaw dropping: blog.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/can-fusion-pow…
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Today the UK government has set out its vision for delivering a commercial *fusion* industry in the UK - more here: gov.uk/government/new…
The strategy is outlined here: gov.uk/government/pub…
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Today, the UK is backing fusion research and commercialisation with over £2.5 billion over five years, developing the STEP site at West Burton
in Nottinghamshire
Background on STEP: blog.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/could-britain-…
UK Fusion Strategy: gov.uk/government/pub…
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