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Tom Clarke

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Science Editor at Sky News in London

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Kaya Burgess | 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 @kayaburgess.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
How late will a pregnancy test work? Can it still give a positive result 1,000 years after conception? A test to see if the skeletons of ancient women were in the early stages of pregnancy, or had recently given birth, when they died is being developed: www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
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Pregnancy test created … for 1,000-year-old skeletons
It has been very tricky for archaeologists to identify women who died while carrying a baby or in childbirth — until now
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
So the president of the United States plans to meet with Putin in Hungary, and when a reporter asked where that plan came from, this was the reply of the United States government www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
In response to HuffPost’s query about who suggested Budapest, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt responded, “Your mom did,” and White House communications director Steven Cheung replied: “Your mom.”
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Tom Clarke @t0mclark3.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
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UK must prepare for 2C of warming by 2050, government told for first time
The goal is hotter and sooner than most official previous advice, and is a nod to the high chance of breaching the ambitious Paris Agreement limit. National advisers on the Climate Change Committee ho...
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Margaret Harris @drmlharris.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Okay, today is physics #NobelPrize day, so there's just enough time for another instalment of... PHYSICS NOBEL PRIZES YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF – PART 2 In 1912, a Swedish inventor called Gustaf Dalén beat Albert Einstein and Max Planck (inter alia) to the biggest prize in physics. How? Well...🧵🧪⚛️
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Tom Clarke @t0mclark3.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
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Trump links paracetamol use in pregnancy to increased risk of autism - here's what the evidence says
While most doctors would advise women only to take medicines in pregnancy when necessary, avoiding paracetamol could do more harm than good.
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Tom Clarke @t0mclark3.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
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The chilling document that traces nuclear weapons back to Britain - and the threat we now face
Nuclear weapons have not been used in warfare since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 80 years ago this week. However, experts warn today's conflicts put the world in a precarious state.
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Tom Clarke @t0mclark3.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Perhaps it's just me, but I can't get over the fact that in our digital age our electricity grid relies on the decidedly analogue insulating power of paper and oil: news.sky.com/story/nation...
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National Grid's maintenance the damning failure identified by report into fire that sparked Heathrow chaos
The "catastrophic" blaze that forced Heathrow to shut for 16 hours could have been avoided if a fault at a nearby National Grid substation, first spotted in 2018, had been fixed, according to a new re...
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Tom Clarke @t0mclark3.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
I once watched a pigeon ride the tube from leafy Maida Vale to food rich Paddington station. But this is a whole other level!
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Tom Clarke @t0mclark3.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
British fishermen are up in arms…
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Tara Connolly @taraconnolly.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Wow. An honest review of an SUV. www.irishtimes.com/motors/revie...
For the rest of us? We need to stop. Not only does the International Council on Clean Climate (ICCC) reckon that the extra weight and bulk of SUVs outmatches the gains in efficiency we’ve made with improved petrol engines and electric power, but more recently Imperial College London has released a study that shows you’re 44 per cent more likely to die if you’re struck by an SUV as opposed to a more conventional saloon, hatchback or estate. For children, chillingly, that figure rises to 130 per cent. I’ve been known to soften my SUV stance in the face of examples that are charming, or stylish, or notably comfortable, practical or good to drive, but those figures are enough to make any potential SUV purchaser blanch at the prospect. Or, at least, they ought to.
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Sky News @news.sky.com · 28/04/2025
How electricity grids fail - and why restoring Spain and Portugal's power will be a nightmare
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How electricity grids fail - and why restoring Spain and Portugal's power will be a nightmare
We rarely think about how essential and reliable electricity grids are until they fail.
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Victoria Seabrook @seabrookclimate.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
US representative at London energy security summit Tommy Joyce says climate policies “harms human lives” and that Biden regulated oil and gas out of existence in favour of “net zero agenda”. But US oil and gas production reached record levels under Biden
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Victoria Seabrook @seabrookclimate.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Government to decide on regional pricing by summer, Sky News understands Meanwhile Trump's guy at energy security summit quotes the Bible to back up US energy policy, says God's "golden rule" is to love your neighbour, which means selling them oil, gas and coal news.sky.com/story/govern...
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Government to decide on 'postcode pricing' plan for electricity bills by summer
So-called "zonal pricing" could see the south of England pay more for electricity bills than parts of Scotland. It comes as energy secretary Ed Miliband doubles down on the case for more clean power, ...
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Tom Clarke @t0mclark3.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Its the bonds what done it. Great analysis by my colleague Ian King news.sky.com/story/trump-...
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Donald Trump has finally blinked - but it's not the stock markets that have forced him to act
The US president had brushed off the sour equity market reaction to his tariffs as being akin to "medicine" that had to be taken. But, as ever, it is the bond markets that have forced Mr Trump to blin...
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Tom Clarke @t0mclark3.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Top tip if you're home late and reheating pasta carbonara: don't
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
I remember it being unpleasant & a lot less fudge-y.
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Tom Clarke @t0mclark3.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
This is an important point. Unless people plan now for replacing their boiler when it -- probably unexpectedly-- packs up, they'll have little choice but to get a new gas boiler. Should advice be: sort home energy efficiency now, upgrade heating system so you're "heat pump ready"?
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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Interested in using data on human behaviour to understand and predict epidemics? Come do a PhD with us! Deadline 7 March – please get in touch if interested! www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-a...
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Tom Clarke @t0mclark3.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Estonia flips the switch
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Tom Clarke @t0mclark3.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Make the Moon Great Again? We delved into the future of human space exploration under Donald Trump news.sky.com/story/make-t...
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Make the Moon Great Again—or lose it to China? The new space race heats up
Why despite all the technological advances since America first landed on the Moon, is its bid to return so fraught with uncertainty? The answer isn't really rocket science, it's politics.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 01/02/2025
Saturday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the *lowest* on record (JAXA data) • about 640,000 km² below the 2010s mean • about 1,280,000 km² below the 2000s mean • about 1,850,000 km² below the 1990s mean • about 2,290,000 km² below the 1980s mean Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
Line graph time series of 2025's daily Arctic sea ice extent compared to decadal averages from the 1980s to the 2010s. The decadal averages are shown with different colored lines with purple for the 1980s, blue for the 1990s, green for the 2000s, and white for the 2010s. Thin white lines are also shown for each year from 2000 to 2024. 2025 is shown with a thick gold line. There is a long-term decreasing trend in ice extent for every day of the year shown on this graph between January and April by looking at the decadal average line positions.
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Tom Clarke @t0mclark3.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
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The real message behind Trump's withdrawal of US from the Paris climate agreement
Behind Donald Trump's "Drill baby, drill!" rhetoric, there is a wider political message in his ordering of the US to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, both to those who supported him, and to ...
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Tom Clarke @t0mclark3.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Hight temperature superconducting magnets anyone? This is about fusion -- but so many other current and future applications news.sky.com/story/the-wo...
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The wonder material which could hold the key to near-limitless energy
A rare-earth barium copper oxide (REBCO) is now being used by an Oxfordshire-based company for its superconducting properties in the hope it will make nuclear fusion a practical reality.
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It's The Big Iron, Charlie Brown @big-iron.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Don't let the clickbait ass title confuse you, this is as fine a tribute as you'll get today www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqZp...
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David Lynch being a madman for a relentless 8 minutes and 30 seconds | cosmavoid
YouTube video by cosmavoid
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Tom Clarke @t0mclark3.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Hi mycology Bluesky, do the clear beads of fluid produced by mould have a name? And if so, what is it? Also, can I feed these beans to my children?
A tin of VERY mouldy beans
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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
The rise and rise of renewables, UK edition. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uks...
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
The Black and Azov Sea fauna is suffering as a consequence of the oil spill. Local birds, fish, and animals are being suffocated by the massive amounts of mazut in the water.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
NEW RECORD: 2024 is the first year in history when wind, solar and hydropower generated more electricity than fossil fuels in the UK.
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Tom Clarke @t0mclark3.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Great analysis on the causes and impacts of a seismic shift in car manufacturing by my Sky colleague @edconway.bsky.social news.sky.com/story/the-el...
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The electric shock behind Europe's stuttering EV future - and how China has leapfrogged major car-exporting nations
Sky's Ed Conway explains how the rest of the world was caught napping in the electric vehicle race, which means our car prices and auto industry jobs are within China's grip.
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Natasha Loder @natashaloder.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Same story.
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Tom Clarke @t0mclark3.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
In the words of one young barrister: "It's f***ing sh*t." "The whole system is f***ed." news.sky.com/story/inside...
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Inside the UK's 'wild west' court system where people may have to wait until 2028 for justice to take place
A Sky News team found crumbling buildings, lawyers almost in open revolt and a judge prepared to speak out at Leicester Crown court.
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badly drawn boo! 🎃👻🧛🏼‍♀️ @soapachu.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
I think I can say, with reasonable certainty, absolutely the fuck not
A package of espresso martini Wensleydale cheese
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Home Alone could've had a very different ending if it was made more recently.
Image 1 is of Kevin from Home Alone film walking in front of a work van being driven. Image two is a child in front of a large pick up truck.
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Tom Clarke @t0mclark3.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
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Tom Clarke @t0mclark3.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Dirty tricks could delay or derail Assisted Dying Bill news.sky.com/story/assist...
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Assisted dying bill could be wrecked by dirty tricks
MPs will vote on Labour MP Kim Leadbeater's Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill for the first time on Friday 29 November.
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Brendan Godley @brendangodley.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Winter strandings of juvenile hardshell #turtles in UK have started! This one still alive! on a beach near Blackpool. Less than 30cm long. Keep an eye out. Contact numbers can be found here: www.ukturtles.online/Graphics%20a... 🐢🌍🧪🦑 #seaturtles #marineturtles
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Daniel | ScienceSocks et al. @sciencesocks.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
This is what y'all wanted so I'm here to deliver 🙃 Pillars of Googly Eyes is now available as 1000 piece puzzle 🧩 🔗 sciencesocks.co/pages/puzzle... Will you help this go viral again? Please like and share! 🔭🐡🧪
Pillars of Creation but with googly eyes and printed on a 1000 pieces puzzle. Don't ask.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
The Open Source Munitions Portal is on BlueSky, an excellent resource for those of us who investigate conflict incidents. As some who has spent hours looking for a single reference image of an at-the-time obscure missile, I know it'll save people a lot of time. bsky.app/profile/muni...
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Tom Clarke @t0mclark3.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
My piece on the climate finance deal at COP29 news.sky.com/story/cop29-...
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COP29: A climate deal so bad that the host nation had to force it through
To an outsider, COP29's agreement to send $300bn a year to poor countries may seem good but climate-vulnerable nations are angry at the rich world reneging on a historic deal.
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Ben van der Merwe @bvdm.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
This post is misinformation, and the CIA is to blame. A lesson in data presentation🧵
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Tom Clarke @t0mclark3.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
My first journey on the newly renamed overground line to Richmond. Mildmay -- named after London charitable hospital that became Europe's first dedicated AIDS hospice in 1985.
Electronic train display on London's Mildmay line
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Tom Clarke @t0mclark3.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Snow is general. London is confused
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Tom Clarke @t0mclark3.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Well, that escalated quickly
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Mickey Carroll @mickeycarroll.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
It's true - despite writing the story below... this post is my first on Bluesky! Hello 👋 and if you're interested whether this place can truly challenge X, give it a read:
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Tom Clarke @t0mclark3.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
My colleague @mickeycarroll.bsky.social wrote this. But hasn't yet posted on Bsky -- so thought I'd get her started! news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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The X exodus - could Bluesky spike spark end of Elon Musk's social media platform?
Even Google appears to trust X less, with one expert telling Sky News the search engine treats X competitor Bluesky as 10 times more important than Elon Musk's platform.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 13/11/2024
Shout out to the United States, where gas, the transition fuel, is now emitting as much as coal did in the early 2010s robbieandrew.github.io/GCB2024/
a chart showing emissions for the us by fuel type
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 14/11/2024
Time for the @bsky.app community to see one of my favorite visualizations of climate change... "Shifting Distribution of Land Temperature Anomalies" by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5211/ ⚒️🧪
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Tom Clarke @t0mclark3.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
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'He was the light of my life and I lost him': How a famous surgeon died in an Israeli prison after being taken from Gaza hospital
When war in Gaza erupted last year, Dr Adnan Al-Bursh worked around the clock while documenting the horror unfolding around him. Then he was detained. Now, Sky News has spoken to people who claim to h...
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Tom Clarke @t0mclark3.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Today in Baku... news.sky.com/story/theres...
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There's already a risk COP29 will end in failure - and damage of Trump 2.0 could yet spread
Negotiators have endured four years of a previous Trump administration trying, and ultimately failing, to pull out of the Paris Agreement. But this time they know his team will have learned from its p...
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