Jo Marchant

This is a very exciting story.

So this is a, um, exclusive in- in Nature by, um, Jo Marchant.

Um, and it's from a bunch of Egyptian researchers who published in the Occasional Papers of the Amarna Royal Tombs Project.

The big news is they think they may have found Nefertiti's tomb, and this is a very kind of tentative may, a big maybe.

I'm Vas Christodoulou.

The science journalist Jo Marchant is the author of In Search of Now, a mind-bending investigation into the nature of time, drawing on neuroscience, psychology, physics and culture to understand what we mean by the present.

She joins Sarah Stein-Lebrano to tell us more.

This book is ambitious because it has two different fields of science.

And I just think that it's that feeling of, you know, are we looking for hope or connection? Or when you're looking at another person, are you just seeing, I don't know, anger and difference? Or are you not even noticing them at all? Or are you seeing another human experience? who has similarities to you.

It's like just once you start to realize how much we are doing in creating the worlds that we perceive, then you start to realize that you do have some responsibility for that and the ability to start to change that.

yeah I mean that's beautiful isn't it again this book is In Search of Now The Science and Mystery of the Present Moment by Jo Marchant and I hope people enjoy it thank you so much for writing it are you writing another one is another book coming

I'm not actually writing one yet I'm thinking about it but I'm quite enjoying actually just being between books and being out in the world and exploring some different ideas