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Super reporting with an explainer on how/why Hezbollah is so enmeshed with the health system, and the consequences the new conflict will have on a country already awash with refugees. buff.ly/3NehkiK @wanderingsal

Several months ago, my friend Elie Bleier approached me with an idea for a three-part audio series about Trump, the UFC & the violent politics that unite them. His idea became the basis for Sports Politika's first original series: In The Red Corner sportspolitika.news/p/trump-ufc-po…

Armenia's Mount Aragats cosmic-ray observatory, published in Physical Review D, shows how thunderstorms can create gamma-ray flashes by accelerating electrons Their observations could help unravel the origins of #lightning ⚡🌩️ My latest for Physics World 🔽 physicsworld.com/a/mountaintop-…

NEWS // We are thrilled to reveal that Jacklin Kwan is the winner of the 2024 #SarahHughesTrustPrize for journalism, run in association with the The Royal Society of Medicine and Medical Journalists' Association 🎉 Details: rsm.ac.uk/latest-news/20…

I've recently been awarded the Sarah Hughes Trust Prize for my investigation into umbilical cord banking for The BMJ It's an incredible honour to have my work be recognised by The Royal Society of Medicine! You can still read the story here 👉 bit.ly/48CwMiC

Congratulations Jacklin Kwan 👏 on your well-deserved win!

Physicists have long wondered why particles can only have an electric charge of +1, -2 or any whole number. Now we increasingly suspect that, actually, that's not true after all newscientist.com/article/mg2643…

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Journalists need to document and scrutinize wars, including the Russia-Ukraine war and Israel's war on Gaza. Science journalists have important roles to play here too, as Claudia López Lloreda writes in The Open Notebook. theopennotebook.com/2024/11/26/cov…

Elsevier has retracted dozens of papers for “fictitious” reviews —ones written under the name of known scientists without their knowledge. ScienceInsider talked to Michael Bertram, one of the scientists whose names were used, about his experience. ⬇️ bit.ly/3VjwFTy

On the hunt for both fractionally charged and irrationally charged particles :)

New paper! arxiv.org/abs/2501.04773 We previously showed that black holes decohere ("measure") any quantum superpositions in their vicinity. If you suddenly realize a black hole is decohering you, what should you do to preserve as much coherence as you can?

I’ve spent years building my profile here so it's been difficult to see the steep decline of this platform I’m moving all my activity to BlueSky. I’ll be leaving this profile up for reference, but you can find me here: bsky.app/profile/jackli… I hope to see you all there 🦋

Today was my first day at New Scientist as its new Features Editor 📣 My email inbox is now open to pitches! Send me your big-swing feature ideas about science's emerging research, disruptive discoveries or high-impact applications 📧 [email protected]