Stephen Luntz
Writer at IFL Science
Writer at IFLS, administrator of NGO internal elections at Above Quota Elections, runner of quirky but seldom financially successful fundraising events.
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iflscience.com | Stephen Luntz |Maddy Chapman
Sound waves are variations in air pressure. Our ears are so finely tuned to amplifying them over a certain range of frequencies, that we can sense pressure changes through them that are undetectable through other means. However, when the pressure variations are large enough, we can feel them through our body, as anyone who has stood next to a speaker at a loud concert knows. Those changes apply a force to cells, be they free-living or part of an organism.
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iflscience.com | Stephen Luntz |Laura Simmons
It’s the cosmological equivalent of having slid between the cushions down the back of the couch; that is the place you should have suspected but hadn’t looked. Cosmology these days is dominated by the search for things we are confident exist, but can’t find or explain: dark energy, dark matter, and “missing matter”. Now a large collaboration claims to have found the last of these.
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iflscience.com | Stephen Luntz |Katy Evans
The type of asteroids that could have brought water and life to Earth make up half of those expected to hit us, but we find few meteorites from them. Why? The type of meteorites that could have been crucial to the origins of life are very rare, but the asteroids they come from are common. Astronomers have long had an explanation for this paradox, but couldn’t prove it. New research shows that explanation is only half the answer, with exposure to the Sun providing the rest.
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iflscience.com | Stephen Luntz |Katy Evans
The mid-Cretaceous equivalent of tanks left some exceptional fossils, but surprisingly we have not found their footprints until now. Several footprints found in western Canada must have come from ankylosaurid ankylosaurs, paleontologists have concluded, making them the first of their kind discovered.
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iflscience.com | Stephen Luntz |Laura Simmons
If astronauts ever land on Mars, and certainly if tourists do, they’ll soon send home photos of themselves pointing at a pale blue dot in the evening sky to indicate where they came from. Have you ever wondered how Earth will compare in that sky with Venus or Jupiter? Wonder no longer. What determines a planet’s brightness from another? How bright a planet looks from another world depends on several factors.
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