Through his pioneering research, Svante Pääbo – this year’s #NobelPrize laureate in physiology or medicine – accomplished something seemingly impossible: sequencing the genome of the Neanderthal, an extinct relative of present-day humans.

Details of Europa 🧊 During #JunoMission’s flyby of Jupiter's moon last week, its Stellar Reference Unit (SRU) camera imaged this closeup of Europa’s fractured, icy surface. SRU helps orient Juno but has also proven itself to be a valuable science tool. go.nasa.gov/3fLiJQw

So much going on this JWST image ab.co/3EGR919 My latest (it's physics, not an alien) story for ABC Science

Wow!

The Black Death wiped out up to 50 per cent of the population in Medieval Europe. Just imagine that …

Clouds, clouds go away .... Here's my guide to what tonight's eclipse will look like in different parts of Australia if the skies are clear. It's the last one for a while so🤞 ABC Science ab.co/3fPf44n

It was spectacular 😂 #CrapMoonPhotos

Ancient sand reveals the age of K'gari (Fraser Island) and how the world's largest sand island — along with the Great Barrier Reef — may have been shaped by a dramatic shift in global climate. ab.co/3WUrWHc Genelle Weule

We are going. For the first time, the NASA_SLS rocket and Orion Spacecraft fly together. #Artemis I begins a new chapter in human lunar exploration.

For the #wednesday fans and the plant pedants

Astroblog: What is up in the Southern Sky this week? Mercury prominent in the morning sky, Venus prominent in evening twilight. The Moon visits First Jupiter, the the Pleiades and Mars. astroblogger.blogspot.com/2023/01/thursd…

I love this ancient Egyptian embalming recipe: "To make his odour pleasant" = mix goat fat with resin from a tropical tree My latest story for ABC Science

My latest story is a 3 million-year-old whodunnit. Was it Nutcracker Man? Fascinating chats with Andy I.R. Herries at La Trobe Archaeology, Julien Louys Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution and Dr Ben Schoville

It's hard not to love Saturn. My latest story for ABC Science

My latest story. H5N1 is something to watch. The numbers of poultry and wild birds, as well as species of mammals, now affected by this virus is just mind blowing - and devastating.

My latest story explores the emerging science of microbiomes with wsteenhu Emad El-Omar and Lisa Stinson

My latest story: 🌋on Venus! Great to chat to Prof Robbie Herrick and Stephen Kane

Want more Beethoven? Here's my latest story about this fascinating cold case: ab.co/42zjsbt

⏰Meteors vs the Moon: coming to the sky above you from tomorrow morning. Thanks so much to my sky guides 💧 Ian "Engaging and Scary Lecturer" 🍩 🐀Musgrave and Jonti Horner

Hmmm…. Beyond annoying The Project