Clive Cookson

@clivecookson

Senior science writer, Financial Times. All views are mine or borrowed from other people — and not necessarily the FT's.

London ft.com/science Joined February 2009

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Clive Cookson @clivecookson Aug 20

A biochemical surprise. When a wound begins to heal, the clotting protein fibrinogen stacks up in flat layers like sheets of paper rather than tilted like this ////// . Could have big implications for medicine ft.com/content/403a9b… via @ft

www.ft.com Blood clot discovery upends consensus about how wounds heal Proteins stack up in layers like sheets of paper to start to form clots, scientists find

Clive Cookson @clivecookson Aug 13

Another strange optical effect of the eclipse last night in London. Pattern on an internal door of light coming through a window with small square panes

Clive Cookson @clivecookson Aug 12

Leaf gap crescents on a London wall

Clive Cookson @clivecookson May 29

A new contender emerges for the location of animals' magnetic sensing. We've had eyes, ears and beaks. Now a study in Germany suggests the liver ft.com/content/27f061… via @ft

www.ft.com Birds navigate using ‘gut feeling’, scientists find The liver’s iron-rich immune cells act as an internal compass that helps pigeons detect Earth’s magnetic field

Clive Cookson @clivecookson May 13

Neanderthal dentist drilled into decayed tooth more than 40,000 years before the earliest record of dentistry by ancestral modern humans. ft.com/content/6ff0b2… via @ft

www.ft.com Neanderthal dentist drilled into decayed tooth almost 60,000 years ago Study suggests Neanderthals had cognitive ability, dexterity and social support comparable with modern humans