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Richard Gray

@chalkmark

Science journalist. Ex-biochemist. Editor at BBC Future (bbc.com/future). Coffee drinker. Climber. patentlygreat.wordpress.com

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I’m on BBC Breakfast in the next hour talking about Black Holes - with the ‘other’ Brian Cox. One day I will tell the full story about me trying to check into the hotel last night. Confusion doesn’t begin to describe it.

I’m on <a href="/BBCBreakfast/">BBC Breakfast</a> in the next hour talking about Black Holes - with the ‘other’ Brian Cox. One day I will tell the full story about me trying to check into the hotel last night. Confusion doesn’t begin to describe it.
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Microscopic fragments of plastic are absorbed from the soil by plant roots. What does this mean for the food we eat? bbc.com/future/article…

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We tend to associate dinosaurs with ground-shaking roars, but latest research shows that this is probably mistaken. 📝: Read Richard Gray’s interesting article @bbcfuture ⏳: Estimated Time of #MeaningfulProcrastination: 9 min 💌: #ProcrastinatorTimes bbc.com/future/article…

We tend to associate dinosaurs with ground-shaking roars, but latest research shows that this is probably mistaken.

📝: Read <a href="/chalkmark/">Richard Gray</a>’s interesting article @bbcfuture 
⏳: Estimated Time of #MeaningfulProcrastination: 9 min
💌: #ProcrastinatorTimes
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"Our analysis allows us for the first time to actually put a number on what Exxon knew - that the burning of their fossil fuel products was going to heat the planet by about 0.2C of warming every decade" - what a scientist behind new findings told me bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

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🔴 The death toll in #Turkey and #Syria has surpassed 36,000 following earthquakes that devastated the countries last week. Could science help us predict future disasters?👩🏽‍🔬 Richard Gray has the story for BBC. Read more on informed 👇. app.informed.so/articles/2023-…

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Anyone who has 24 minutes to spare this week, I can very much recommend these three excellent short films presented by Richard Fisher about deep time. Beautifully shot, and delightfully lyrical. I found them strangely calming: bbc.com/reel/video/p0f…

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Is asbestos in drinking water safe? A year ago, Journalismfund Europe awarded our cross-border team a grant to investigate whether asbestos fibres from old pipes leaching into drinking water was safe: I wrote the UK investigation for BBC Future 1/ bbc.com/future/article…

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Very much enjoying this list of successful partnerships from the natural world, including the slimy mutualism of periphyton: bbc.com/future/article…

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The far-reaching impacts of #wildfiresmoke – and how to protect yourself. Last year smoke from massive fires in Canada blew all the way to New York, resulting in #AirQuality alerts being issued. A great article on the subject..... bbc.com/future/article…

The far-reaching impacts of #wildfiresmoke – and how to protect yourself. Last year smoke from massive fires in Canada blew all the way to New York, resulting in #AirQuality alerts being issued. A great article on the subject..... bbc.com/future/article…
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🇦🇶 The experience of living in Antarctica, almost totally cut off from the rest of the world, can change how you speak bbc.co.uk/future/article… by Richard Gray via BBC Future

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And somehow we shoehorned an anecdote about James Baldwin and Margaret Mead into this delightful story about critter cams??? bbc.co.uk/future/article…

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An iceberg plate works as a tuning fork," says Alexander Gavrilov, a professor at the Centre for Marine Science and Technology at Curtin University in Australia. "The song frequencies depend on iceberg's dimensions." Richard Gray bbc.com/future/article…