
Ian Randall
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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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