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Simon Redfern’s Biography

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Prof Redfern's work covers a broad range of interests all linked by their relationship to the atomic-scale, nano-scale and microscopic structure of minerals, and the impacts of these on Environmental Science and Sustainability. He is interested in the relationships between structure, dynamics and properties of crystalline solids from the Earth's core to the biosphere, and how these properties impact upon broader Earth and environmental processes. This includes the relationship between microstru…

Simon Redfern’s Journalist Portfolio

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Al Jazeera Anak Krakatau piece

Al Jazeera Anak Krakatau piece

My interview on Al Jazeera on the morning of the December 2018 Anak Krakatau eruption and tsunami

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Worthless mining waste could suck CO₂ out of the atmosphere

Worthless mining waste could suck CO₂ out of the atmosphere

The Paris Agreement commits nations to limiting global warming to less than 2C by the end of the century. How…

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The first time Britain split from mainland Europe was way more chaotic than Brexit

The first time Britain split from mainland Europe was way more chaotic than Brexit

As Brexit looms, Earth scientists have uncovered evidence of Britain's original split from mainland Europe. A…

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Scientists have modeled the changes that occur a split-second after an asteroid hits Earth

Scientists have modeled the changes that occur a split-second after an asteroid hits Earth

The Barringer meteor crater is an iconic Arizona landmark, more than one kilometer wide and 170 meters deep, …

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Comet impacts cook up 'soup of life'

Comet impacts cook up 'soup of life'

By Simon Redfern, Science writer. Prof Mark Burchell, from the University of Kent, UK, who was not involved i…

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BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Earth's Core

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Earth's Core

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Earth's solid inner core and liquid outer core, their structures and thei…

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Articles

The mystery of Earth’s missing lead

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By Simon Redfern
| geoscientist.online
For more than half a century, geochemists have wrestled with an uncomfortable problem. Earth appears to be missing some of its lead. Not literally, of course, lead is abundant in ore deposits, occurs in volcanic rocks, and has been mined and used by humans for thousands of years. But when scientists compare the composition of lead’s various forms (or isotopes) in Earth’s crust and mantle with the composition expected from the meteorites that formed the Solar System, something does not add up.
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Perovskite’s structural dynasty - Nature Geoscience

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By Simon Redfern
| Nature Verified
The structure of perovskite underpins materials from as deep as 2,900 kilometres in the Earth to those fundamental to modern technology, as Simon Redfern explains.
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Hidden pressure-stabilized lead reservoirs in Earth’s mantle - Nature Communications

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By Siyu Liu, Meng Guo, Shidong Yu, Simon Redfern
| Nature Verified
Abstract The isotopic imbalance between the accessible silicate Earth and chondritic meteorites implies a missing reservoir of unradiogenic lead. While prior models invoked sequestration in the core, the mechanisms capable of isolating lead from its radiogenic parents within the silicate Earth remain uncertain. Here we show, using first-principles structural prediction and melting-point calculations, that high-pressure Pb-S phases could stably host unradiogenic Pb deep within the mantle.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

As BSA MEdia Fellow I joined the BBC Science team in New Broadcasting House, London, working both on radio & news online.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

of course - and TipEx - and carbon paper.

How is social media changing news?

it is bringing news down to the street, but making it global and ubiquitous at once.