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Jun 12, 2024 | 
newscientist.com | Martin Rees
The Oscars. The Booker prize. The Nobels. The award ceremonies that punctuate our year are all inherently backward-looking, celebrating past achievements. But there is another type of award, one that looks to the future – the challenge prize. Such prizes don’t recognise past successes, rather incentivise future ones. The idea is simple: a challenge is selected – with a clear-cut target – and a jackpot is offered to whoever first reaches that goal.
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Jun 9, 2024 | 
thenakedscientists.com | Martin Rees |Chris Smith
Earlier this summer, the Astronomer Royal, Martin Rees, delivered a wonderful virtual lecturer to the Starmus science conference in Bratislava. It was about whether we are alone in the Universe. It was so good that we thought you’d like to hear it too, so we got him to record it. Here’s Lord Rees…We’re all aware that our natural world is the outcome of about 4 billion years of Darwinian evolution. Most people think of humans as the culmination—the top of the tree, but no astronomer can believe that.
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Martin Rees
Neatly Arranged Timezone Clocks on Solid Blue Colored Background. Credit - Getty Images—© 2020 SunyixunIn our everyday lives, time is a precious commodity. We can gain or lose it. We can save, spend or waste it. If our crimes are revealed, we risk having to do time. To scientists, time is something we can measure.
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Jan 16, 2024 | 
thenakedscientists.com | Martin Rees
From Shropshire to spacePlayFull TranscriptDownloadChris Smith met up with Martin Rees at his Cambridge home to hear about his life's work... Martin - Well, I was very lucky because I grew up in this village in the South Shropshire Hills - beautiful natural world. My parents were teachers and I was sent away to boarding school (which wasn't quite so happy) when I was 13. But I was very well taught and I did get into Cambridge and I read mathematics.
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Jan 5, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Martin Rees
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Jan 5, 2024 | 
newscientist.com | Martin Rees
IN OUR everyday lives, time is a precious commodity. We can gain it or lose it. We can save, spend or waste it. If our crimes are revealed, we risk doing time. But it is, of course, something we can measure. Indeed, clocks have, over the centuries, been the high-tech artefacts of their era – the water clock, the pendulum clock, Harrison’s chronometer, all the way up to the incredible precision of atomic clocks. Before there was a reliable calendar of months and seasons, the past was a fog.
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Jan 3, 2024 | 
newscientist.com | Martin Rees
IN OUR everyday lives, time is a precious commodity. We can gain it or lose it. We can save, spend or waste it. If our crimes are revealed, we risk doing time. But it is, of course, something we can measure. Indeed, clocks have, over the centuries, been the high-tech artefacts of their era – the water clock, the pendulum clock, Harrison’s chronometer, all the way up to the incredible precision of atomic clocks. Before there was a reliable calendar of months and seasons, the past was a fog.
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Oct 26, 2023 | 
flipboard.com | Martin Rees
12 hours agoAll your WiFi calling questions answered in one place. With WiFi calling, you can make or receive calls with your smartphone over a WiFi connection in areas where you have poor cellular signal. It’s supported by most modern smartphones and most carriers, including Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile. Of …
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Oct 25, 2023 | 
bbc.com | Martin Rees
We've long assumed that aliens will be like us, but there's every reason to think they are instead a form of unfathomable AI, says the UK astronomer royal Lord Martin Rees. It's taken more than four billion years for intelligent life to emerge by natural selection on Earth, but there are billions more years ahead in our planet's lifetime. Over that time, intelligence could develop in entirely new directions.
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Oct 12, 2023 | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | Martin Rees
Every October sees the award of the “scientific Oscars”: Nobel prizes. The science prizes established in Alfred Nobel’s will are for physics, chemistry and “physiology or medicine”. This year the three scientific Nobels went to a total of eight scientists – rewarded for sustained efforts to tackle fundamental challenges.
