Benjamin Thompson from Nature - Journalist Profile

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1	Benjamin Thompson Nature	Audio long read: AI has dreamt up a blizzard of new proteins. Do any of them actually work? - 19 days ago ‘Rapture and beauty’: a writer’s portrait of the International Space Station - about 1 month ago Surprise finding reveals mitochondrial ‘energy factories’ come in two different types - about 1 month ago Star-eating black hole could power cosmic particle accelerator - 2 months ago Strange gamma-ray flickers seen in thunderstorms for the first time - 3 months ago Ancient DNA debunks Rapa Nui ‘ecological suicide’ theory - 3 months ago Audio long read: So you got a null result. Will anyone publish it? - 4 months ago Long-sought 'nuclear clocks' are one tick closer - 4 months ago Can ageing be stopped? A biologist explains - 4 months ago AI can’t learn new things forever — an algorithm can fix that - 4 months ago Audio long read: Hope, despair and CRISPR — the race to save one woman’s life - 5 months ago How light-based computers could cut AI’s energy needs - 5 months ago The plastic that biodegrades in your home compost - 5 months ago Breastfeeding should break down mothers’ bones — here’s why it doesn’t - 5 months ago These frog 'saunas’ could help endangered species fight off a deadly fungus - 6 months ago Why ‘open source’ AIs could be anything but, the derailment risks of long freight trains, and breeding better wheat - 6 months ago Audio long read: How NASA astronauts are training to walk on the Moon in 2026 - 6 months ago Audio long read: How does ChatGPT ‘think’? Psychology and neuroscience crack open AI large language models - 7 months ago Dad’s microbiome can affect offspring’s health — in mice - 8 months ago The ‘ghost roads’ driving tropical deforestation - 8 months ago Audio long read: Why are so many young people getting cancer? What the data say - 9 months ago Pregnancy’s effect on ‘biological’ age, polite birds, and the carbon cost of home-grown veg - 9 months ago AI hears hidden X factor in zebra finch love songs - 9 months ago Killer whales have menopause. Now scientists think they know why - 9 months ago These tiny fish combine electric pulses to probe the environment - 10 months ago Audio long read: Chimpanzees are dying from our colds — these scientists are trying to save them - 10 months ago Why are we nice? Altruism’s origins are put to the test - 10 months ago Cancer’s power harnessed — lymphoma mutations supercharge T cells - 11 months ago Audio long read: Long COVID is a double curse in low-income nations — here’s why - 11 months ago Toxic red mud could be turned into ‘green’ steel - 11 months ago The science stories you missed over the holiday period - 11 months ago Audio long read: A new kind of solar cell is coming — is it the future of green energy? - 12 months 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	Ewen Callaway Nature	Audio long read: AI has dreamt up a blizzard of new proteins. Do any of them actually work? - 19 days ago
3	Emily Bates Nature	Surprise finding reveals mitochondrial ‘energy factories’ come in two different types - about 1 month ago The plastic that biodegrades in your home compost - 5 months ago
4	Nick Petrić Howe Nature	Star-eating black hole could power cosmic particle accelerator - 2 months ago Strange gamma-ray flickers seen in thunderstorms for the first time - 3 months ago Ancient DNA debunks Rapa Nui ‘ecological suicide’ theory - 3 months ago AI can’t learn new things forever — an algorithm can fix that - 4 months ago Breastfeeding should break down mothers’ bones — here’s why it doesn’t - 5 months ago These frog 'saunas’ could help endangered species fight off a deadly fungus - 6 months ago Why ‘open source’ AIs could be anything but, the derailment risks of long freight trains, and breeding better wheat - 6 months ago Dad’s microbiome can affect offspring’s health — in mice - 8 months ago The ‘ghost roads’ driving tropical deforestation - 8 months ago AI hears hidden X factor in zebra finch love songs - 9 months ago Killer whales have menopause. Now scientists think they know why - 9 months ago These tiny fish combine electric pulses to probe the environment - 10 months ago Why are we nice? Altruism’s origins are put to the test - 10 months ago Cancer’s power harnessed — lymphoma mutations supercharge T cells - 11 months ago
5	Max Kozlov Nature	Audio long read: So you got a null result. Will anyone publish it? - 4 months ago
6	Elizabeth Gibney Nature	Long-sought 'nuclear clocks' are one tick closer - 4 months ago How light-based computers could cut AI’s energy needs - 5 months ago
7	Heidi Ledford Nature	Audio long read: Hope, despair and CRISPR — the race to save one woman’s life - 5 months ago Audio long read: Why are so many young people getting cancer? What the data say - 9 months ago Audio long read: Long COVID is a double curse in low-income nations — here’s why - 11 months ago
8	Alexandra Witze Nature Science journalist. Nature correspondent. Boulder, Colorado science journalismnature	Audio long read: How NASA astronauts are training to walk on the Moon in 2026 - 6 months ago
9	Dan Fox Nature	Why ‘open source’ AIs could be anything but, the derailment risks of long freight trains, and breeding better wheat - 6 months ago
10	Matthew Hutson Nature	Audio long read: How does ChatGPT ‘think’? Psychology and neuroscience crack open AI large language models - 7 months ago