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Jess Thomson

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Writer at Freelance

science reporter at @newsweek 🧬 words also found in @VICEUK, @guardian, @refinery29, @thecut, @theipaper, @telegraph ✨

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  • Red flag warning for Nebraska in aftermath of California fires

    2 months ago | newsweek.com | Jess Thomson

    CLOSE X Share✓ Link copied to clipboard! Several counties across central Nebraska have been issued a "Red Flag Warning" due to the potential for wildfires. Fires could break out across the Cornhusker State due to high winds and low humidity, which make for ideal wildfire weather. This comes only weeks after much of Los Angeles was ablaze with many of the worst wildfires the city had ever seen.

  • NASA tracking bus-size asteroid approaching Earth at 30,000 mph

    2 months ago | newsweek.com | Jess Thomson

    CLOSE X Share✓ Link copied to clipboard! An asteroid the size of a school bus is set to zoom by the Earth on Tuesday, traveling several times faster than a speeding bullet. The asteroid, named 2025 BS4, is said by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to be roughly 22 feet in diameter, with JPL's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) estimated that it could be between 17 and 40 feet across. The average American school bus is roughly 35 to 40 feet long, for reference.

  • Mysterious new asteroid turns out to be Tesla Roadster in space

    2 months ago | newsweek.com | Jess Thomson

    CLOSE X Share✓ Link copied to clipboard! A strange object initially thought to be a newly discovered asteroid actually turned out to be a Tesla zipping through space. The "asteroid" was designated 2018 CN41 on January 2 by the Minor Planet Center (MPC) at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, after its discovery by an amateur astronomer from Turkey.

  • Drones Could Be 'Magic Tools' in Fight Against Bears

    2 months ago | newsweek.com | Jess Thomson

    CLOSE X Share✓ Link copied to clipboard! Remote-controlled drones could be used to scare away bears without having to shoot at them, an expert has suggested. This could help reduce human-wildlife conflict with grizzly bears, according to a new paper in the journal Frontiers in Conservation Science.

  • Doctor finds Florida man has cholesterol oozing from his body

    Jan 24, 2025 | newsweek.com | Jess Thomson

    CLOSE X Share✓ Link copied to clipboard! A man from Tampa, Florida started leaking chunks of cholesterol from his skin after spending years gorging himself on fatty foods as part of a "carnivore diet."The man, who is in his forties, went to Tampa General Hospital three weeks after he began seeing strange pale "yellowish nodules" emerging from his palms, soles, and elbows, according to a new case report published in the journal JAMA Cardiology.

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27 Mar 25

RT @LiveScience: An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown b…

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jess thomson @thomsonjessic
25 Mar 25

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jess thomson @thomsonjessic
20 Mar 25

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