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Science journalist and New York Times bestselling author of Cure, Decoding the Heavens and The Human Cosmos
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All living things emit a faint glow. Could this light be useful?

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By Jo Marchant Verified
| Nature Verified
In 2025, quantum physicist Daniel Oblak and his colleagues published images of mice that made headlines around the world. The researchers put four anaesthetized mice inside a dark chamber and pointed a sensitive camera at them. It picked up a stream of photons emitted from the animals’ skin: a light signal too faint to be seen by the human eye, but visible in the camera images as a ghostly, mouse-shaped glow1.
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What The Odyssey reveals about ancient science – from botany to psychiatry

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By Jo Marchant Verified
| Nature Verified
Christopher Nolan’s 2026 film The Odyssey puts a twenty-first century spin on Homer’s epic tale. Credit: Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures/Shutterstock In The Odyssey,Homer records the earliest imaginings of autonomous ships. The ships of the Phaeacians, which carry Odysseus home to Ithaca, “know every city, every fertile land”. They “have no steersmen’, and “know by instinct what their crews are thinking and propose to do’.
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The American Revolution’s Overlooked Influence? Physics. How ‘Common Sense’ Spelled Out Astronomical Expectations for a New Nation

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By Jo Marchant Verified
| Smithsonian Magazine Verified
The manifesto leaned heavily on Isaac Newton’s theories in making a case for independence, and fellow founders drew on the notion to build a new system of government In politics, as in nature, tensions can take years to build, but it takes just one stone to unleash an avalanche, one spark to ignite a wildfire. For many historians of the American Revolution, that spark was a pamphlet of fewer than 100 pages written by a newly arrived English immigrant named Thomas Paine.
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