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Posted: Jun 5, 2026, 8:03 PM
Caption: 'Arts programs can be prescribed as clinical care'⁠ ⁠ Daisy Fancourt is one of the world’s most influential scientists working at the intersection of arts and health. We caught up with her @sxswlondon on why arts engagement matters, what she hopes her research achieves, and how arts funding cuts are standing in the way.⁠ ⁠ Watch our full interview with Daisy about her bestselling book 'Art Cure' - Link in bio

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Posted: Jun 5, 2026, 5:08 PM
Caption: Antartica's 'Doomsday' glacier's giant ice shelf is about to break away⁠ ⁠ Antarctica’s most threatened glacier is about to be further destabilised, as the floating ice shelf in front of Thwaites glacier is set to break away.⁠ ⁠ Dubbed the “doomsday glacier”, Thwaites is about the size of Britain, but it is shrinking rapidly and is already responsible for 4 per cent of all global sea-level rise. Worse still, its collapse is expected to set off a domino effect in the entire West Antarctic ice sheet, ultimately resulting in a calamitous sea-level rise of 3.3 metres and changing the coastline of the entire planet.⁠ ⁠ Tap the link in bio to learn how Antarctica's 'doomsday glacier' collapse may be worse than we thought

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Posted: Jun 5, 2026, 2:00 PM
Caption: Over the past 150 years, Earth’s entire surface has been warming, except for one patch of the north Atlantic. Located south-east of Greenland, this area has cooled by as much as 1°C and is known as the “warming hole” or the “cold blob”.⁠ ⁠ Scientists have been split over why this cold blob exists, but the latest evidence backs up the idea that it is caused by a weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), the system of currents that transports warmth from the tropics to Europe.⁠ ⁠ The AMOC carries warm, salty water from the Gulf of Mexico towards the north Atlantic, where it cools and sinks, flowing back south along the ocean floor. Scientists are concerned that the surge of freshwater from Greenland’s melting ice is making this salty water less dense, so it sinks more slowly, weakening the circulation.⁠ ⁠ Tap the link in our bio to read more.⁠ ⁠ Image: NASA Scientific Visualization Studio/Goddard Space Flight Center⁠

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Posted: Jun 5, 2026, 9:03 AM
Caption: What is the science behind manifestation? 🧠⁠ ⁠ This week on Change Your Mind, we tackle the slightly controversial subject of manifesting. It might sound a bit woo, but hosts Cat de Lange and Helen Thomson get stuck into whether there is any proper science behind the practice, and if so, what is going on in the brain?⁠ ⁠ One promising area of research is sports psychology. Studies show that simply imagining your golf swing, gymnastics moves or basketball play activates the same areas of the brain as actually playing the sport. ⁠ ⁠ Further research has also shown that when people with an injury imagined moving that part of their body, they experienced less muscle wastage. ⁠ ⁠ All of which goes to show that the power of imagination and rehearsal can have a real impact on the body and potentially your performance. ⁠ ⁠ Elsewhere on the show, we explore why the brain tends to focus on the negative, and why thinking yourself out of these negative thought patterns - as people do with manifestation - could be helpful, as well as selective attention, which could point to why vision boards and journaling might actually work. ⁠ ⁠ Listen to the full episode of Change Your Mind with New Scientist wherever you get your podcasts, or follow the link in bio. ⁠ ⁠ #manifesting #neuroscience

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Posted: Jun 4, 2026, 8:53 PM
Caption: Are GLP-1 medications transforming chronic disease? ⁠ ⁠ @shemed_uk is the first female-focused GLP-1 company in the UK with a mission to close the women's health research gap by examining the potential of these medications to address specific women’s health conditions, including PMOS, endometriosis, menopause symptoms, and other areas that remain under-researched.⁠ ⁠ GLP-1 medications are transforming how we think about chronic disease, yet up to 60% of patients quit within the first year. In her chat @sxswlondon, eMed CEO Linda Yaccarino makes the case that GLP-1s are not a weight loss story, they're a preventative care story. ⁠ ⁠ Tap the link in bio to learn more about how GLP-1 drugs have transformed medicine ⁠ ⁠ #womenshealth #PMOS #GLP1

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Posted: Jun 4, 2026, 5:38 PM
Caption: World’s largest scorpion revealed from 415-million-year-old fossils⁠ ⁠ A giant scorpion that once roamed what is now England and Wales has been confirmed as the largest of its kind ever to exist, thanks to new research led by scientists at the Natural History Museum.⁠ ⁠ Measuring around a metre in length and armed with pincers over 16 centimetres long, Praearcturus gigas would have been a formidable predator stalking floodplains around 415 million years ago.⁠ ⁠ Remarkably, the fossils used to identify Praearcturus have been held in the Museum’s collection for more than 150 years. Scientists used modern analytical techniques and comparisons with newly described fossil species to confirm that Praearcturus is definitively a scorpion and a distinct species.⁠ ⁠ This giant scorpion lived tens of millions of years before other famous “giant” arthropods, reshaping ideas about how and why early arthropods grew so large⁠ ⁠ Tap the link in bio to learn more about the world's other largest arthropods

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Posted: Jun 4, 2026, 2:00 PM
Caption: Some of the microbes lingering on the 5300-year-old remains of “Ötzi the Iceman” may still be metabolically active, despite being kept in icy conservation conditions.⁠ ⁠ Ötzi’s mummified body was discovered in 1991 thawing out of an Alpine glacier close to the border of Austria and Italy. He is estimated to have lived at some point between 3350 and 3120 BC, and in the 35 years since he was found, studies of his remains have revealed a treasure trove of information, including that he was probably dark-skinned and balding, had numerous tattoos and had a wound in his shoulder from an arrow, suggesting he was murdered.⁠ ⁠ Ötzi is now kept at the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, Italy, in conditions designed to mimic some of those inside the glacier where he was found: a temperature of -6°C (21°F) and a relative humidity of 99 per cent.⁠ ⁠ Tap the link in our bio to read more.⁠ ⁠ Image: South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology/Eurac Research/Marion Lafogler

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Posted: Jun 3, 2026, 2:01 PM
Caption: A daily pill doubles the survival time of people with pancreatic cancer, one of the most aggressive and difficult-to-treat forms of the condition, even after they have stopped responding to chemotherapy. What’s more, the convenient pill has fewer side effects than standard chemotherapy.⁠ ⁠ “It’s a transformative treatment,” says Pilar Acedo at University College London, who wasn’t involved in the research. “For decades, [survival outcomes] haven’t changed for pancreatic cancer. [The new treatment] gives you double the amount of time to enjoy your life, be with your family and do things that you would like to do.”⁠ ⁠ About 70 per cent of people with pancreatic cancer are diagnosed at an advanced stage. A combination of no routine screening and vague symptoms, like a sore back, means that the condition is usually spotted when it has spread elsewhere. Standard treatment involves chemotherapy, but even then, most people only survive for about three to six months, on average. “The disease is really aggressive and difficult to treat,” says Acedo.⁠ ⁠ Tap the link in our bio to read more.⁠ ⁠ Image: REUTERS/Danielle Villasana⁠

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Posted: Jun 3, 2026, 11:43 AM
Caption: Can we patent the deep sea? ⁠ ⁠ The deep ocean is more accessible than ever before. This opens up the exciting prospect of new scientific discoveries from amazing marine creatures to the potential origins of life. At the same time, there are increasing political and economic pressures to extract resources like fish or critical minerals from the ocean floor. ⁠ ⁠ In our talk on The Future of Ocean Exploration @sxswlondon we discussed what the future holds for the depths of our oceans, including the implementation of the High Seas Treaty, the march toward deep‑sea mining and the cutting of national research budgets. ⁠ ⁠ What will these changes mean for the future of ocean science, exploration and the sustainable management of the planet's last true wilderness?⁠ ⁠ Tap the link in bio to learn more about the first treaty to protect the high seas

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Posted: Jun 2, 2026, 5:03 PM
Caption: Why do we enjoy saunas?⁠ ⁠ Helen Thomson and Cat de Lange spoke to Mike Tipton, Professor of Physiology, who said the appeal may come from recreating experiences that humans once encountered naturally through changing environmental conditions. He suggested that part of the benefits may be connected to exercising the body’s thermoregulatory system.⁠ ⁠ Tap the link in our bio to listen to the podcast.

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Posted: Jun 2, 2026, 2:00 PM
Caption: Shoot for the moon and even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars, so the saying goes. But shooting straight for the stars instead might actually be the more effective option, according to mathematicians.⁠ ⁠ In life, people tend to try to be ambitious, yet not overly so, when it comes to pursuing their objectives, such as landing a better job, finding an appropriate partner or achieving political goals.⁠ ⁠ However, quantifying this balance hasn’t been studied in detail, and much research has focused on when people stop looking too soon and aren’t ambitious enough, says Thomas Hills at the University of Warwick, UK.⁠ ⁠ Now, using mathematical models, Matt Burgess at the University of Wyoming and his colleagues have found that the best outcomes for uncertain scenarios typically come from aiming high, but not unrealistically so.⁠ ⁠ Tap the link in our bio to read more.⁠ ⁠ Image: Buena Vista Images/Getty Images

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Posted: Jun 1, 2026, 2:00 PM
Caption: A virus has stopped pancreatic cancer in its tracks in three people in a clinical trial in the US. Further evaluation is needed in larger trials, but the early results are encouraging, especially since only small doses of the virus were administered for initial safety testing.⁠ ⁠ “We only injected one-tenth of the dose we are eventually aiming at, so the efficacy is better than I expected, especially as this is pancreatic cancer,” says Masato Yamamoto at the University of Minnesota, who led the development of the viral treatment.⁠ ⁠ Pancreatic cancer is notorious for being the deadliest type of the condition. One reason is that symptoms tend to appear late, when the cancer has already spread and cannot be surgically removed. Once diagnosed, people usually live only around three to six months.⁠ ⁠ Tap the link in our bio to read more.⁠ ⁠ Image: Anne Weston, EM STP, The Francis Crick Institute/Science Photo Library⁠

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Posted: Jun 5, 2026, 8:03 PM
Caption: 'Arts programs can be prescribed as clinical care'⁠ ⁠ Daisy Fancourt is one of the world’s most influential scientists working at the intersection of arts and health. We caught up with her @sxswlondon on why arts engagement matters, what she hopes her research achieves, and how arts funding cuts are standing in the way.⁠ ⁠ Watch our full interview with Daisy about her bestselling book 'Art Cure' - Link in bio

Likes: 1,172
Comments: 26
Views: 21.9K
Posted: Jun 5, 2026, 5:08 PM
Caption: Antartica's 'Doomsday' glacier's giant ice shelf is about to break away⁠ ⁠ Antarctica’s most threatened glacier is about to be further destabilised, as the floating ice shelf in front of Thwaites glacier is set to break away.⁠ ⁠ Dubbed the “doomsday glacier”, Thwaites is about the size of Britain, but it is shrinking rapidly and is already responsible for 4 per cent of all global sea-level rise. Worse still, its collapse is expected to set off a domino effect in the entire West Antarctic ice sheet, ultimately resulting in a calamitous sea-level rise of 3.3 metres and changing the coastline of the entire planet.⁠ ⁠ Tap the link in bio to learn how Antarctica's 'doomsday glacier' collapse may be worse than we thought

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Posted: Jun 5, 2026, 2:00 PM
Caption: Over the past 150 years, Earth’s entire surface has been warming, except for one patch of the north Atlantic. Located south-east of Greenland, this area has cooled by as much as 1°C and is known as the “warming hole” or the “cold blob”.⁠ ⁠ Scientists have been split over why this cold blob exists, but the latest evidence backs up the idea that it is caused by a weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), the system of currents that transports warmth from the tropics to Europe.⁠ ⁠ The AMOC carries warm, salty water from the Gulf of Mexico towards the north Atlantic, where it cools and sinks, flowing back south along the ocean floor. Scientists are concerned that the surge of freshwater from Greenland’s melting ice is making this salty water less dense, so it sinks more slowly, weakening the circulation.⁠ ⁠ Tap the link in our bio to read more.⁠ ⁠ Image: NASA Scientific Visualization Studio/Goddard Space Flight Center⁠

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Posted: Jun 5, 2026, 9:03 AM
Caption: What is the science behind manifestation? 🧠⁠ ⁠ This week on Change Your Mind, we tackle the slightly controversial subject of manifesting. It might sound a bit woo, but hosts Cat de Lange and Helen Thomson get stuck into whether there is any proper science behind the practice, and if so, what is going on in the brain?⁠ ⁠ One promising area of research is sports psychology. Studies show that simply imagining your golf swing, gymnastics moves or basketball play activates the same areas of the brain as actually playing the sport. ⁠ ⁠ Further research has also shown that when people with an injury imagined moving that part of their body, they experienced less muscle wastage. ⁠ ⁠ All of which goes to show that the power of imagination and rehearsal can have a real impact on the body and potentially your performance. ⁠ ⁠ Elsewhere on the show, we explore why the brain tends to focus on the negative, and why thinking yourself out of these negative thought patterns - as people do with manifestation - could be helpful, as well as selective attention, which could point to why vision boards and journaling might actually work. ⁠ ⁠ Listen to the full episode of Change Your Mind with New Scientist wherever you get your podcasts, or follow the link in bio. ⁠ ⁠ #manifesting #neuroscience

Likes: 623
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Posted: Jun 4, 2026, 8:53 PM
Caption: Are GLP-1 medications transforming chronic disease? ⁠ ⁠ @shemed_uk is the first female-focused GLP-1 company in the UK with a mission to close the women's health research gap by examining the potential of these medications to address specific women’s health conditions, including PMOS, endometriosis, menopause symptoms, and other areas that remain under-researched.⁠ ⁠ GLP-1 medications are transforming how we think about chronic disease, yet up to 60% of patients quit within the first year. In her chat @sxswlondon, eMed CEO Linda Yaccarino makes the case that GLP-1s are not a weight loss story, they're a preventative care story. ⁠ ⁠ Tap the link in bio to learn more about how GLP-1 drugs have transformed medicine ⁠ ⁠ #womenshealth #PMOS #GLP1

Likes: 1,070
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Posted: Jun 4, 2026, 5:38 PM
Caption: World’s largest scorpion revealed from 415-million-year-old fossils⁠ ⁠ A giant scorpion that once roamed what is now England and Wales has been confirmed as the largest of its kind ever to exist, thanks to new research led by scientists at the Natural History Museum.⁠ ⁠ Measuring around a metre in length and armed with pincers over 16 centimetres long, Praearcturus gigas would have been a formidable predator stalking floodplains around 415 million years ago.⁠ ⁠ Remarkably, the fossils used to identify Praearcturus have been held in the Museum’s collection for more than 150 years. Scientists used modern analytical techniques and comparisons with newly described fossil species to confirm that Praearcturus is definitively a scorpion and a distinct species.⁠ ⁠ This giant scorpion lived tens of millions of years before other famous “giant” arthropods, reshaping ideas about how and why early arthropods grew so large⁠ ⁠ Tap the link in bio to learn more about the world's other largest arthropods

Likes: 974
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Posted: Jun 4, 2026, 2:00 PM
Caption: Some of the microbes lingering on the 5300-year-old remains of “Ötzi the Iceman” may still be metabolically active, despite being kept in icy conservation conditions.⁠ ⁠ Ötzi’s mummified body was discovered in 1991 thawing out of an Alpine glacier close to the border of Austria and Italy. He is estimated to have lived at some point between 3350 and 3120 BC, and in the 35 years since he was found, studies of his remains have revealed a treasure trove of information, including that he was probably dark-skinned and balding, had numerous tattoos and had a wound in his shoulder from an arrow, suggesting he was murdered.⁠ ⁠ Ötzi is now kept at the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, Italy, in conditions designed to mimic some of those inside the glacier where he was found: a temperature of -6°C (21°F) and a relative humidity of 99 per cent.⁠ ⁠ Tap the link in our bio to read more.⁠ ⁠ Image: South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology/Eurac Research/Marion Lafogler

Likes: 1,288
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Posted: Jun 3, 2026, 2:01 PM
Caption: A daily pill doubles the survival time of people with pancreatic cancer, one of the most aggressive and difficult-to-treat forms of the condition, even after they have stopped responding to chemotherapy. What’s more, the convenient pill has fewer side effects than standard chemotherapy.⁠ ⁠ “It’s a transformative treatment,” says Pilar Acedo at University College London, who wasn’t involved in the research. “For decades, [survival outcomes] haven’t changed for pancreatic cancer. [The new treatment] gives you double the amount of time to enjoy your life, be with your family and do things that you would like to do.”⁠ ⁠ About 70 per cent of people with pancreatic cancer are diagnosed at an advanced stage. A combination of no routine screening and vague symptoms, like a sore back, means that the condition is usually spotted when it has spread elsewhere. Standard treatment involves chemotherapy, but even then, most people only survive for about three to six months, on average. “The disease is really aggressive and difficult to treat,” says Acedo.⁠ ⁠ Tap the link in our bio to read more.⁠ ⁠ Image: REUTERS/Danielle Villasana⁠

Likes: 328
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Views: 12.4K
Posted: Jun 3, 2026, 11:43 AM
Caption: Can we patent the deep sea? ⁠ ⁠ The deep ocean is more accessible than ever before. This opens up the exciting prospect of new scientific discoveries from amazing marine creatures to the potential origins of life. At the same time, there are increasing political and economic pressures to extract resources like fish or critical minerals from the ocean floor. ⁠ ⁠ In our talk on The Future of Ocean Exploration @sxswlondon we discussed what the future holds for the depths of our oceans, including the implementation of the High Seas Treaty, the march toward deep‑sea mining and the cutting of national research budgets. ⁠ ⁠ What will these changes mean for the future of ocean science, exploration and the sustainable management of the planet's last true wilderness?⁠ ⁠ Tap the link in bio to learn more about the first treaty to protect the high seas

Likes: 2,297
Comments: 85
Views: 91.3K
Posted: Jun 2, 2026, 5:03 PM
Caption: Why do we enjoy saunas?⁠ ⁠ Helen Thomson and Cat de Lange spoke to Mike Tipton, Professor of Physiology, who said the appeal may come from recreating experiences that humans once encountered naturally through changing environmental conditions. He suggested that part of the benefits may be connected to exercising the body’s thermoregulatory system.⁠ ⁠ Tap the link in our bio to listen to the podcast.

Likes: 1,343
Comments: 19
Posted: Jun 2, 2026, 2:00 PM
Caption: Shoot for the moon and even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars, so the saying goes. But shooting straight for the stars instead might actually be the more effective option, according to mathematicians.⁠ ⁠ In life, people tend to try to be ambitious, yet not overly so, when it comes to pursuing their objectives, such as landing a better job, finding an appropriate partner or achieving political goals.⁠ ⁠ However, quantifying this balance hasn’t been studied in detail, and much research has focused on when people stop looking too soon and aren’t ambitious enough, says Thomas Hills at the University of Warwick, UK.⁠ ⁠ Now, using mathematical models, Matt Burgess at the University of Wyoming and his colleagues have found that the best outcomes for uncertain scenarios typically come from aiming high, but not unrealistically so.⁠ ⁠ Tap the link in our bio to read more.⁠ ⁠ Image: Buena Vista Images/Getty Images

Likes: 5,307
Comments: 46
Posted: Jun 1, 2026, 2:00 PM
Caption: A virus has stopped pancreatic cancer in its tracks in three people in a clinical trial in the US. Further evaluation is needed in larger trials, but the early results are encouraging, especially since only small doses of the virus were administered for initial safety testing.⁠ ⁠ “We only injected one-tenth of the dose we are eventually aiming at, so the efficacy is better than I expected, especially as this is pancreatic cancer,” says Masato Yamamoto at the University of Minnesota, who led the development of the viral treatment.⁠ ⁠ Pancreatic cancer is notorious for being the deadliest type of the condition. One reason is that symptoms tend to appear late, when the cancer has already spread and cannot be surgically removed. Once diagnosed, people usually live only around three to six months.⁠ ⁠ Tap the link in our bio to read more.⁠ ⁠ Image: Anne Weston, EM STP, The Francis Crick Institute/Science Photo Library⁠

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