Benjamin Thompson from Nature - Journalist Profile

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1	Benjamin Thompson Nature	Kids’ real-world arithmetic skills don’t transfer to the classroom - 16 days ago AI-designed antivenoms could help treat lethal snakebites - about 1 month ago A new-year round-up of the science stories you may have missed - about 1 month ago Science in 2025: what to expect this year - about 2 months ago The <i>Nature Podcast</i> festive spectacular 2024 - about 2 months ago The <i>Nature Podcast</i> highlights of 2024 - about 2 months ago Audio long read: How a silly science prize changed my career - about 2 months ago Audio long read: AI has dreamt up a blizzard of new proteins. Do any of them actually work? - 3 months ago ‘Rapture and beauty’: a writer’s portrait of the International Space Station - 3 months ago Surprise finding reveals mitochondrial ‘energy factories’ come in two different types - 4 months ago Star-eating black hole could power cosmic particle accelerator - 4 months ago Strange gamma-ray flickers seen in thunderstorms for the first time - 5 months ago Ancient DNA debunks Rapa Nui ‘ecological suicide’ theory - 5 months ago Audio long read: So you got a null result. Will anyone publish it? - 6 months ago Long-sought 'nuclear clocks' are one tick closer - 6 months ago Can ageing be stopped? A biologist explains - 6 months ago AI can’t learn new things forever — an algorithm can fix that - 6 months ago Audio long read: Hope, despair and CRISPR — the race to save one woman’s life - 7 months ago How light-based computers could cut AI’s energy needs - 7 months ago The plastic that biodegrades in your home compost - 7 months ago Breastfeeding should break down mothers’ bones — here’s why it doesn’t - 7 months ago These frog 'saunas’ could help endangered species fight off a deadly fungus - 8 months ago Why ‘open source’ AIs could be anything but, the derailment risks of long freight trains, and breeding better wheat - 8 months ago Audio long read: How NASA astronauts are training to walk on the Moon in 2026 - 8 months ago Audio long read: How does ChatGPT ‘think’? Psychology and neuroscience crack open AI large language models - 9 months ago Dad’s microbiome can affect offspring’s health — in mice - 10 months ago The ‘ghost roads’ driving tropical deforestation - 10 months ago Audio long read: Why are so many young people getting cancer? What the data say - 11 months ago Pregnancy’s effect on ‘biological’ age, polite birds, and the carbon cost of home-grown veg - 11 months ago AI hears hidden X factor in zebra finch love songs - 11 months ago Killer whales have menopause. Now scientists think they know why - 11 months ago These tiny fish combine electric pulses to probe the environment - 12 months ago Audio long read: Chimpanzees are dying from our colds — these scientists are trying to save them - 12 months ago Why are we nice? Altruism’s origins are put to the test - about 1 year ago Cancer’s power harnessed — lymphoma mutations supercharge T cells - about 1 year ago Audio long read: Long COVID is a double curse in low-income nations — here’s why - about 1 year ago Toxic red mud could be turned into ‘green’ steel - about 1 year ago The science stories you missed over the holiday period - about 1 year ago Audio long read: A new kind of solar cell is coming — is it the future of green energy? - about 1 year ago Navigating planets, plays and prejudice — a conversation with Aomawa Shields - about 1 year ago Audio long read: Apple revival — how science is bringing historic varieties back to life - about 1 year ago
2	Elizabeth Gibney Nature	Kids’ real-world arithmetic skills don’t transfer to the classroom - 16 days ago AI-designed antivenoms could help treat lethal snakebites - about 1 month ago The <i>Nature Podcast</i> highlights of 2024 - about 2 months ago Long-sought 'nuclear clocks' are one tick closer - 6 months ago How light-based computers could cut AI’s energy needs - 7 months ago
3	Noah Baker Nature	A new-year round-up of the science stories you may have missed - about 1 month ago The <i>Nature Podcast</i> highlights of 2024 - about 2 months ago Pregnancy’s effect on ‘biological’ age, polite birds, and the carbon cost of home-grown veg - 11 months ago The science stories you missed over the holiday period - about 1 year ago
4	Flora Graham Nature Writes Nature Briefing. Tweets own. On B’sky. London, United Kingdom science	A new-year round-up of the science stories you may have missed - about 1 month ago Pregnancy’s effect on ‘biological’ age, polite birds, and the carbon cost of home-grown veg - 11 months ago The science stories you missed over the holiday period - about 1 year ago
5	Miryam Naddaf Nature	Science in 2025: what to expect this year - about 2 months ago
6	Nick Petrić Howe Nature	The <i>Nature Podcast</i> festive spectacular 2024 - about 2 months ago The <i>Nature Podcast</i> highlights of 2024 - about 2 months ago Star-eating black hole could power cosmic particle accelerator - 4 months ago Strange gamma-ray flickers seen in thunderstorms for the first time - 5 months ago Ancient DNA debunks Rapa Nui ‘ecological suicide’ theory - 5 months ago AI can’t learn new things forever — an algorithm can fix that - 6 months ago Breastfeeding should break down mothers’ bones — here’s why it doesn’t - 7 months ago These frog 'saunas’ could help endangered species fight off a deadly fungus - 8 months ago Why ‘open source’ AIs could be anything but, the derailment risks of long freight trains, and breeding better wheat - 8 months ago Dad’s microbiome can affect offspring’s health — in mice - 10 months ago The ‘ghost roads’ driving tropical deforestation - 10 months ago AI hears hidden X factor in zebra finch love songs - 11 months ago Killer whales have menopause. Now scientists think they know why - 11 months ago These tiny fish combine electric pulses to probe the environment - 12 months ago Why are we nice? Altruism’s origins are put to the test - about 1 year ago Cancer’s power harnessed — lymphoma mutations supercharge T cells - about 1 year ago
7	Dan Fox Nature	The <i>Nature Podcast</i> highlights of 2024 - about 2 months ago Why ‘open source’ AIs could be anything but, the derailment risks of long freight trains, and breeding better wheat - 8 months ago
8	Catriona Clarke Nature	Audio long read: How a silly science prize changed my career - about 2 months ago
9	Emily Bates Nature	The <i>Nature Podcast</i> highlights of 2024 - about 2 months ago Surprise finding reveals mitochondrial ‘energy factories’ come in two different types - 4 months ago The plastic that biodegrades in your home compost - 7 months ago
10	Ewen Callaway Nature	Audio long read: AI has dreamt up a blizzard of new proteins. Do any of them actually work? - 3 months ago