Ian Randall

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Deputy Science Editor at Newsweek

Deputy Science Editor at Newsweek. Woeful caffeine addict. Purveyor of useless information. All opinions are my own.

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Articles

Lost world buried under East Antarctica for 14 million years uncovered

2 days ago | irishstar.com | Ian Randall

Researchers said "the land underneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet is less well known than the surface of Mars" Researchers have revealed the existence of an ancient landscape that has been hidden beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet for millions of years. The experts mapped out some 12,350 square miles of the lost terrain through the ice using both satellite data and radio-echo sounding techniques. The full findings of the study were published in the journal Nature Communications.
People in California warned over parasite-riddled fish

3 days ago | newsweek.com | Ian Randall

Southern Californians have been warned that more than 90 percent of popular game fish have been found to contain invasive, parasitic worms that can infect humans. Two species of the parasitic flatworms known as "trematodes" were found infecting five species of freshwater fish from San Diego County in a study by researchers from University of California, San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Humans give off a light that is extinguished in death, study reveals

1 week ago | newsweek.com | Ian Randall

While auras may come from the realm of pseudoscience, all living beings do emit a faint light, invisible to the human eye—one that is extinguished upon death. This is the conclusion of a team of researchers from the University of Calgary, Canada, who used a special camera to study such "ultraweak photon emission" (UPE) in mice. UPE is closely linked to vitality," explained physicist Vahid Salari and colleagues in their paper, published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.
Scientists may have found what makes cats purr

1 week ago | newsweek.com | Ian Randall

Our enigmatic little furry friends may have just given up one of their secrets, as scientists think they have discovered the gene which underpins purring in cats. Cats are believed to purr for various reasons, from expressive contentment and self-soothing to even helping promote bone regeneration and heal fractures.
Mysterious surface changes on Jupiter's moon point to something deep below

1 week ago | newsweek.com | Ian Randall

The icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa appears to be constantly changing, new data from the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed. This phenomena, the team explained, is heightened in so-called "chaos regions" where surface features like cracks, plains and ridges end up jumbled and ensnared together.
Przełom w badaniach nad starzeniem. Rapamycyna i trametynib wydłużają życie

1 week ago | newsweek.pl | Ian Randall

Międzynarodowy zespół naukowców przeanalizował wpływ rapamycyny i trametynibu na gryzonie, wykazując, że połączenie tych substancji wydłużyła życie zwierząt o około 30 proc. Stwierdzono również, że terapia skojarzona poprawia stan zdrowia myszy w starszym wieku, zmniejszając zakres przewlekłego stanu zapalnego w mózgu i innych tkankach oraz spowalniając rozwój raka.
Połączenie tych 2 leków może spowolnić starzenie. Przełomowe badanie

1 week ago | newsweek.pl | Ian Randall

Międzynarodowy zespół naukowców przeanalizował wpływ rapamycyny i trametynibu na gryzonie, wykazując, że połączenie tych substancji wydłużyła życie zwierząt o około 30 proc. Stwierdzono również, że terapia skojarzona poprawia stan zdrowia myszy w starszym wieku, zmniejszając zakres przewlekłego stanu zapalnego w mózgu i innych tkankach oraz spowalniając rozwój raka.
Połączenie dwóch leków może spowalniać proces starzenia

1 week ago | onet.pl | Ian Randall

Naukowcy dokonują nowych odkryć w dziedzinie medycyny przeciwstarzeniowejMiędzynarodowy zespół naukowców przeanalizował wpływ rapamycyny i trametynibu na gryzonie, wykazując, że połączenie tych substancji wydłużyła życie zwierząt o około 30 proc. Stwierdzono również, że terapia skojarzona poprawia stan zdrowia myszy w starszym wieku, zmniejszając zakres przewlekłego stanu zapalnego w mózgu i innych tkankach oraz spowalniając rozwój raka.
These hungry animals eat their first meal before birth

1 week ago | newsweek.com | Ian Randall

Forget The Very Hungry Caterpillar—scientists have discovered that another notoriously ravenous insect can eat its very first meal before it is even born. Entomologist Koutaro Ould Maeno of the Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences and colleagues report that, in dry conditions, undersized desert locusts can hatch from oversized eggs with a little bit of the egg's yolk already in their guts.
New combination of drugs could drastically change how we age: scientists

1 week ago | newsweek.com | Ian Randall

Combining two cancer drugs has been found to prolong the lifespan of mice—and may help humans age better. An international team of researchers analyzed the impact of rapamycin and trametinib on rodents, showing that the pair extended the animals' lifespan by around 30 percent. The combination therapy was also found to improve the mice's health in older age, reducing the extent of chronic inflammation in the brain and other tissues and slowing cancer onset.