Rebecca Morelle
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The man who reached the deepest place in the ocean - remembering my dear friend Don Walsh (picture
@suefloodphotos
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!!!!ENDURANCE DISCOVERY ALERT!!!! Shackleton’s lost ship has been located - and the images are INCREDIBLE. Amazing achievement for
@Endurance_22
team
(Image courtesy of Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust and National Geographic)
#Endurance22
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The new dive to the
#Titanic
has revealed that the officers quarters are decaying fast - the captain’s bathtub has gone and parts of the deck are collapsing
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Welcome to the black room in
#Pompeii
- it’s just been unearthed after being hidden for 2000 years - just one of the amazing new finds coming to light here. We’re live here this morning on
@BBCBreakfast
@BBCr4today
with
@GZuchtriegel
&
@pompei79
📷 Tony Jolliffe
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A new view of the Titanic! New scans reveal the world's most famous wreck as never seen before. They show the wreck in its entirety - it's as if the water has been drained away… Check it out here
#Titanic
(Footage:
@AtlanticProds
/ Magellan)
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NEW PRIMATE SPECIES ALERT! Meet the Skywalker Hoolock Gibbon - and yes - the scientists are
@starwars
fans
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Some job news…
Rebecca Morelle (
@BBCMorelle
) is the BBC's new Science Editor.
She’ll be based in Cardiff with the Climate and Science team. Rebecca will start her new role later this year.
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TITANIC ALERT!!! Revealed as never seen before... an exclusive look at the first full-sized digital scan of the world’s most famous wreck…
#Titanic
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Third ever time humans have made it to bottom of the Mariana Trench - and what do they see? Eerie landscape, amazing life... and a plastic bag! Our waste is finding its way into the planet’s most remote environments
@FiveDeeps
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Back at hotel now after Etna explosion. Here's
@NewsCamerawoman
with the massive hole a lump of rock burnt through her coat.
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It’s condition is extraordinary - it looks like it has been frozen in time. You can see clear features - the wheel is almost pristine, bolts gleam from the wood and there’s even some discarded crockery on the deck
#Endurance22
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The moment of the Etna explosion - filmed by
@NewsCamerawoman
- she,
@alisonfrancis
& I VERY relieved to be safe.
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@Endurance_22
The wreck was found just over 3,000m down in the Weddell Sea - just 7km from the coordinates recorded on the day the ship vanished beneath the ice more than 100 years ago
#Endurance22
(Images courtesy of Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust and National Geographic)
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NEW TITANIC SCANS... To give you an idea of the size of the scan we superimposed it into
@LondonStadium
where the 2012 Olympics was held. Use me in my orange jacket for scale!
#Titanic
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More from me
@alisonfrancis
and
@DuncanCStone
on
@BBCBreakfast
and elsewhere on TV throughout the day - and from
@BBCAmos
here
#Endurance22
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Scientists think they’ve found the trigger of rare blood clots after the AstraZeneca vaccine - a protein in the blood is attracted to a key component of the vaccine starting a chain reaction - fascinating stuff from
@JamesTGallagher
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Running down a mountain pelted by rocks, dodging burning boulders and boiling steam - not an experience I ever ever want to repeat (8)
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You can see the INCREDIBLE footage here at the top of
@BBCAmos
story - it's a must watch
#Endurance22
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Stunning images on the shortlist for
@RMGreenwich
Astronomy Photographer of the Year.
This one is of the northern lights above Iceland is by Carl Gallagher - do check out the others here:
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Wow wow wow - look at this!
#Pluto
- the little world with the huge heart!
#PlutoFlyby
http://t.co/YCOzpzMeNp
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Just confirmed - everyone taken off the mountain ok - rescue team and guides here were brilliant. We're heading down mountain now
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Caught up in incident at Mount Etna - bbc crew & tourists caught up in huge explosion - caused injuries and evacuation from scene. (1)
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And this image is just ***AMAZING*** - looks so serene but bet it wasn't inside the module!
#WelcomeHomeTim
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Poor woolly mammoths - one of the last surviving groups but they eventually died of thirst
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On Monday a rocket is set to begin its journey to space from
@SpaceCornwall
, sending satellites into orbit - the first time this has been done from British soil… but it’s just the start for the UK’s ambitions in space -
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Wow - remember the
#DARTMission
asteroid crash? Well Nasa has just confirmed the orbit of Dimorphos has changed by a lot - 32 minutes
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Do watch our pieces if you can on
@BBCBreakfast
and the rest of BBC News throughout the day - and here’s the online too. All put together by
@alisonfrancis
@kc_camera
and me - and the scan images and footage are from
@AtlanticProds
and Magellan.
#Titanic
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From near extinction, polecats are back - and clearly enjoying upstaging me! More on the News at Six tonight
@BBCOne
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And look at this fab photo - a cheery Tim carried to the medical tent by some burly Russians
#WelcomeHomeTim
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And the name of the 2020 Mars Rover is.... Rosalind Franklin! An unsung hero of science now gets a legacy that lives on on Mars
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And here you go...Pluto and Charon in full on colour...
#PlutoFlyby
http://t.co/rdIyRSjCHv
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Is Iceland entering a new volcanic era? After 800 years of no activity - why is
#Reykjanes
seeing so many eruptions - and how long will they last?
Ft the brilliant
@tamsinmather
@EIlyinskaya
@subglacial
and written with
@alisonfrancis
#icelandvolcano
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Reminder of how dangerous & unpredictable volcanoes can be - everyone had a very lucky escape. (7)
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Excited about tomorrow’s launch of the
@ESA_JUICE
mission to Jupiter’s icy moons? You can watch all the action as it happens on the
@BBCiPlayer
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This is a properly bonkers amazing story - TWO-MILLION-YEAR-OLD DNA sequenced to reveal a lost Arctic world
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The Titanic was surveyed last summer - by deep sea mapping company Magellan Ltd and documentary makers
@AtlanticProds
Their 3D replica is built from 700,000 images…
#Titanic
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I'm still thinking a lot about the
#Endurance
discovery this week - so if you are craving a bit more Endurance/Shackleton/shipwreck - here are a few things for you ... 🧵
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Three more short bursts of contact last night - 10 seconds each -
#Philae
keeping it short but sweet :)
http://t.co/fOaDFGQw8A
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Was amazing to see Germany fertility team - they fly around world working with every animal - from octopus to okapi.
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Morning from
@goonhillyorg
- their dish is poised to pick up a signal from the Orion spacecraft once it’s on its way - we’ll be here as all the
#Artemis
drama unrolls
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DEEPEST FISH! NEW RECORD! Found 8,145m down in the Mariana Trench
#AGU14
(bottom left in the pic)
http://t.co/sjN3nt0XW6
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Morning treat - beautiful image from the
#Artemis
mission sent back as it arrived at the Moon yesterday.
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Fabulous image from Hubble here taken on Saturday - showing a 10,000km-long split tail created by the impact
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More bad news for frogs... Killer
#chytrid
fungus has been confirmed throughout
#Madagascar
http://t.co/UtK4eZy7WG
http://t.co/YEvGxBOGlg
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The size of it - unimaginable
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Should re-iterate - we are all ok - people brought off mountain quickly by the excellent rescue team (6)
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The sea is taking its toll on the Titanic. But the scan freezes the wreck in time - capturing its detail before more is lost to the sea…
#Titanic
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Many injured - some head injuries, burns, cuts and bruises. Volcanologist said most dangerous incident experience in his 30 year career (3)
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VOMIT COMET ALERT!!!
I joined joined the world's first para-astronaut - the amazing John McFall - on a parabolic flight. He's working on a groundbreaking study with
@esa
to see if a disabled astronaut can work and live in space
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It's one of the pandemic's biggest puzzles - why some people with Covid have no symptoms and others get severely ill. This
@GenomiccStudy
study led by
@kennethbaillie
has found possible answers in our DNA
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The bow - covered in stalactites of rust - is still instantly recognisable even 100 years after the Titanic sank. Check out that anchor and the details of the portholes…
#Titanic
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I’ve located a spot of shade in a beautifully decorated newly excavated room in Pompeii - looks like it could have been painted on the walls yesterday
#Pompeii
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Poor forest elephants - slow birth rate makes it hard to recover from poaching pic:A Turkalo
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The hope is that this could reveal more about what happened the night the ship was lost. Titanic expert Parks Stephenson says: “This model is one of the first major steps to driving the Titanic story toward evidence-based research - and not speculation.”
#Titanic
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Love this story - new giant water lily species discovered - and it’s been hiding in plain sight for 177 years 🧵
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Lava flow mixed with steam - caused huge explosion - group pelted with boiling rocks and steam. (2)
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Giants redwoods - the world’s largest tree - are thriving in the UK… and growing fast, a new study shows.
Ft
@wakehurst_kew
@uclnews
More here and on
@BBCBreakfast
@BBCr4today
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Bbc team all ok - some cuts/ bruises and burns. Very shaken though - it was extremely scary. (5)
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Collossal fossil! Meet the sea monster that has emerged from Dorset’s Jurassic Coast - it’s a beaut!
Story by
@alisonfrancis
and
@BBCAmos
stills by Tony Jolliffe.
And watch more on
@BBCBreakfast
and throughout the day
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Incident could have been worse - explosions like this have killed - but seems minor injuries for now. (4)
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Space alert!!! Tim Peake's Soyuz capsule on display at the
@sciencemuseum
- and we'll be talking to
@astro_timpeake
later on
@BBCBreakfast
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A vaccine may be around the corner but we still need to get numbers down... How busting superspreading events could help fight
#COVID19
- ft
@AdamJKucharski
@mugecevik
@AntheaKatelaris
& Anne Johnson from
@acmedsci
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More pix of the lovely NEW PRIMATE SPECIES - the Skywalker hoolock gibbon
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I’m still gazing at those
#JWST
images! If you fancy another look, here’s our piece that ran last night on TV, ft the fantastic
@astraughnomer
and
@markmccaughrean
- made by fantastic
@alisonfrancis
and
@kc_camera
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I feel very privileged to be given this job - science is just the best beat (I’m definitely not biased...) and there are so many incredible stories to tell.
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Ready for Monday’s mega Moon rocket launch? I’ll be reporting from
@NASAKennedy
with
@BBCAmos
across TV, radio and online
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ICYMI Most extensive study to-date concludes
#neonicotinoids
harm both honeybees and wild bees
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Some absolutely stunning images on NASA's live stream right now as
@NASA_Orion
is heading back home. Splashdown in the Pacific Ocean will happen in just over an hour.
#Artemis1
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The search begins! The
@Endurance_22
expedition is about to set off to try and locate Sir Ernest Shackleton’s lost ship. A lovely read here from
@BBCAmos
- and there’s more from me
@alisonfrancis
and
@DuncanCStone
on TV and radio throughout today
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The stern - separated by about 800m from the bow - is a tangled mess of steel. It corkscrewed into the seafloor and this is what remains…
#Titanic
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Had some time to process yesterday's crazy
#Etna
experience - here's my take on it (written from a safe distance!)
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An estimated 8 injuries logged by medical team here. An amazing 78 year old lady was very close - but safely got away (10)
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Coming back from mountain now - there's a big ash cloud above etna now - the plume from the explosion was visible from a long way apparently
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It's nearly primary mirror unfolding time for
#JWST
- which means some more 😬 for the team... While we wait here's a mini primer on why the mirror is so cool - and how it works - feat
@markmccaughrean
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Decades-long mystery of deep-sea "purple sock" has been solved! This critter is weird!
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It’s nearly time to say goodbye & good riddance to 2020... but before you do pls take a moment to look back at the year in science - from the incredible work on coronavirus to climate change and space exploration
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People shouldn't be afraid of pet gerbils -reassurance from plague study scientist
@BBCr4today
http://t.co/BWaaHJ2jar
http://t.co/l2S0quTYIP
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As another Moon mission is set to begin -
@AndySaunders_1
gives us a chance to look anew at Apollo. After scouring through Nasa's archives, he's digitally enhanced the original Apollo images and footage - and the results are stunning.
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Wow - this is amazing
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