Freelance journalists: I'm building up @techreview's coverage of physical technology: chips, materials science, quantum computing, engineering, robotics, a little bit of space, etc. Reach out to say hello! Or send me a pitch

A big congratulations to all the winners of this year's @ScienceWriters Science in Society journalism awards. It was an honor to serve as a category judge this year—and also a huge challenge. There were so many great entries.

People will be like, “generative AI has no practical use case,” but I did just use it to replace every app icon on my home screen with images of Kermit, soooo

Hopping in here real quick to plug the first feature up online from @techreview's upcoming 125th anniversary issue: @KaraPlatoni's look at what the future might hold for a baby born today. It's a fun one!

Sadly @NobelPrize didnt follow. One of the great omissions. RIP bj the architect of modern particle physics: quarks and QCD, how to find W bosons and charm and QFD, and more besides which spawned others' awards. And all in a single paper in 1966.

Fourteen years ago, I wondered why my students at @nyu_journalism couldn't have access to embargoed @EurekAlert press releases. Others have also wondered that. Today, they changed their policy. https://t.co/FYXmRMzwII via @deborahblum

Simone Biles is now the most decorated US Olympics gymnast, so here is a thread of her as functions y = x

As athletics at #Paris2024 gets underway, it's a good time to share my recent @techreview feature on supershoes and their impact on the sport. With input from current Olympians, past world record holders, top coaches & exercise physiologists, etc.

“Why use the Oxford comma?”

Controversial CRISPR scientist promises “no more gene-edited babies” until society comes around

We are hiring a new managing editor in our Cambridge office! This is a job for people into process, with a real eye for detail and who get satisfaction from things just ... working. https://t.co/lu8ab6op6m

Something is pumping out large amounts of oxygen at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, at depths where a total lack of sunlight makes photosynthesis impossible

*Cronch* I ran over a rock and found crystals inside! It's pure sulfur. (And no, it doesn’t smell.) Elemental sulfur is something we’ve never seen before on Mars. We don't know much about these yellow crystals yet, but my team is excited to investigate. https://t.co/Am07DuXpPX

NASA is cancelling its already-built VIPER rover to hunt for ice on the Moon because of budgetary pressures - and scientists aren't happy. Story by me @newscientist https://t.co/kzEk4yDb4I

New York! Please join me and @carlzimmer tonight 7:30 PM at @greenlightbklyn for a discussion about my new book, Becoming Earth! Hope yo see you there! https://t.co/DfwqBxqEib

we know surprisingly little about the athletes who have been pushed out of sports because of restrictive gender policies for every high-profile story of an athlete told she can't play, there have been more who quietly disappeared my piece for @Slate: https://t.co/OyuLeMyw06

Deadline: July 23

My latest: Detecting gravitational waves currently requires gigantic observatories. But in the future we might do it on a tabletop — by levitating particles, measuring acoustic waves in an ultracold fluid, or putting tiny crystals in two places at once https://t.co/rogwz0Pr3F

This week, senior editor @strwbilly takes on a seemingly simple but extraordinarily rich question: what exactly is AI?

Love today's @apod so much that I've just ordered a large version of this for the office wall. So good! https://t.co/KDDEM08WQb