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Gene editing technologies have the potential to revolutionise the treatment of many diseases. Join us online for our free #TransformingTheFuture conference this week as we explore the science transforming gene editing medicines and barriers to their widespread deployment. https://t.co/hQZFPRvPu4
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New research published in Royal Society Open Science used a combination of remote-sensing technologies to study the effect of naval sonar signals on dolphin behaviour in Southern California. Over on our blog, lead author Dr. Brandon Southall introduces the team's work: https://t.co/BdIIaRK1hu
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The world is failing to take advantage of African genetic diversity, says Royal Society Africa Prize 2023 winner Professor Kelly Chibale in the @guardian. If it works in Africa, there’s a good chance it’ll work somewhere else, he says of clinical trials.
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How do ideas about air pollution from 1661 compare to the modern day? Dr Mark Richards critiques the ideas of diarist and founding Royal Society Fellow John Evelyn (Born #OnThisDay in 1620), with readings from poet Lemn Sissay in Evelyn's own words: https://t.co/u9gS7XZkiX https://t.co/Ne24AdavuY
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The Royal Society's Career Development Fellowships are still open for applications until 19 November. This scheme aims to support the retention in STEM of researchers from underrepresented backgrounds. Apply now: #RSGrants https://t.co/wnqiVOl5Yu https://t.co/KixWlIJED0
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As part of our blog series for BlackHistoryMonth, #ScienceWrite alum Morgan Mitchell explores the unique career paths of two Oxford scientists, Gloria Charite and Marcela Alves Lopes, the barriers they've faced, and how their backgrounds have shaped their experiences: https://t.co/6gLwXZ9OBS
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Big businesses can have big impacts on nature. Dr Nicola Ranger of the Environmental Change Institute tells us how action to reduce these impacts on the natural world can be good for businesses too: https://t.co/dH0L3zabB9
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With #COP16 on #biodiversity about to enter its second week, Chair of Natural England Dr Tony Juniper explains the opportunities of this COP and why we must ensure that we don't repeat the failure's of the past: https://t.co/NQQN0nvQvn
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Could you survive on a WW2 diet? Rationing during the war meant that diets were restricted, but scientists Elsie Widdowson FRS and Robert McCance tested out a diet to see how people could remain healthy. Here's how their work is still affecting us today: https://t.co/3cyDk9N4hQ https://t.co/SFtwIqi4b3
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#OnThisDay in 1671, astronomer Giovanni Cassini first observed Saturn's moon Iapetus. Iapetus is a strange beast, with one light hemisphere and one dark hemisphere, and a huge equitorial ridge of some of the Solar System's tallest mountains: #Astronomy https://t.co/dH7zuZxQTR https://t.co/RgGU7ZUkEE
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We are very happy to announce that the winner of this year's Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize is 'A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?' by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith. Congratulations to Kelly and Zach! #SciBooks https://t.co/vYvVoBOgQ1
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The Royal Society's Career Development Fellowships are still open for applications. This scheme aims to support the retention in STEM of researchers from underrepresented backgrounds. Apply now: #RSGrants https://t.co/wnqiVOl5Yu https://t.co/Md5VXC0VP9
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Join us this evening at the Royal Society for @CARA1933's free annual Science and Civilisation lecture, delivered by renowned international lawyer and author Philippe Sands as he explores the challenges of dealing with competing arguments about science in the context of https://t.co/5fuk6XWK9M
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What was the great auk like? And what lessons can we learn from its extinction? Author Gísli Pálsson talks about his Royal Society #SciBooks nominated read, The Last of its Kind: https://t.co/n4xMHF0VXm https://t.co/otd6CiMX6p
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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar FRS was an astrophysicist who worked on the evolution of stars. He won Nobel Prize for Physics in 1983 with William Fowler, and was the recipient of the Royal Society's Royal and Copley Medals. He was born #OnThisDay in 1910: https://t.co/eD5Oa3hxC0 https://t.co/cfSzjiP8l9
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When 18th century statistician and philosopher Thomas Bayes noted down his eponymous theorem on probability, he had little idea that it would have such a profound effect on humanity. In 'Everything is Predictable', which is nominated for our #SciBooks Prize, @TomChivers explores
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Why have women's bodies been so under-researched throughout scientific history? It’s one of the many questions Cat Bohannon raises in her Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize-nominated 'Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution'. Listen to her in
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When is a fact not a fact? Will Newton and Einstein's theories always be the best we have? When new facts emerge it doesn't mean science can't be trusted. Quite the opposite. Here's why questioning established understanding is good: https://t.co/BTggi1PGFP https://t.co/HWca1XOeXl
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Primate change: a new study in @RSocPublishing #ProcB takes a look at non-human primate populations around the world to gauge their risk of extinction due to #ClimateChange: https://t.co/uZxWl6ovJJ
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Clouds aren't just fluffy shapes in the sky or a sign of oncoming rain, they are intimately tied to #ClimateChange. Watch the whole video with cloud scientist and Royal Society University Research Fellow Edward Gryspeerdt: https://t.co/IWTLwjmMi7 https://t.co/97Fo12oAD3
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