Nicola Jones

My annual year in review piece for Knowable magazine https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2025/top-science-stories-of-the-year-2025 HIGHLIGHTS Renewable energy up, but emissions still crazy Global vaccine coverage struggling HIV: next best thing to a vaccine now in play, but funding facing challenges Astronomy: Vera C Rubin Observatory hosts biggest yet camera Personalized gene therapy gets started Hopes for more transplants, including from pigs First treatment for Huntington's Metal Organic Framework sponges come of age Quantum computing gears up Pollution perils Rethinking mitochondria And... of course... dire wolves back from extinction? And a new colour called olo! 

In the spring of 2026, Canada is set -- finally -- to get its first dedicated and continuous volcano monitoring station. And it's going to be right in my back yard. Mount Meager, one of Canada's two most hazardous volcanoes and the source of Canada's largest ever recorded landslide, is just 60km or so up the valley from where I live in Pemberton, BC. The active volcano last erupted 2,400 years ago, and is today spewing hot gas and  sloughing rock and gravel down its slopes. It could erupt tomorrow, or tens of thousands of years from now. For lack of monitoring, no one knows.   The station is set to be just the first in a set of instruments needed to establish an early warning system for residents like our family. Read my story in the Pique:   https://www.piquenewsmagazine.com/local-news/canadas-first-volcano-monitoring-station-set-to-be-installed-on-mount-meager-in-spring-11583768