Randy Vazquez

Just a space enthusiast living in Glasgow

[Phys.org @physorg_com]

#Salar de Uyuni’s #Mirror effect is not uniform, but varies with rainfall and evaporation. The most reflective conditions occur after heavy rain, with peak visibility from late January to early March. @NaturePortfolio https://t.co/IrWXcv2VPX https://t.co/zKoVmV4HBN

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🗣️ Watching images from Gaza on TV - starving children, buildings bombed with civilians inside, destitute families trekking through the rubble - many people around the world concluded months ago that Israel was committing genocide in the region.

"But genocide is a precise legal term. It means "intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group".

📩 Read our latest newsletter from @Channel4News' International Editor @lindseyhilsum 👇

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[Phys.org @physorg_com]

#A previously unknown object orbiting the distant dwarf planet Quaoar may be a new #Moon, challenging current understanding of #Ring and satellite formation in the outer solar system. https://t.co/Z41NBsuTMf https://t.co/LxtXruHZSL

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Swiss doctors have begun a rotating hunger protest outside parliament, accusing the government of hiding behind neutrality and staying silent on the Gaza war. They’re urging tougher action like sanctions on Israel and demanding the country recognise a Palestinian state.

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Israel's military says it now controls 40% of Gaza City as it presses ahead with a deadly new offensive in the north of the enclave.

Gazan health authorities said Israeli fire killed at least 53 people today with Palestinians forced once again to either flee south or risk getting caught up in the latest wave of our attacks.

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Israeli tanks have pushed deeper into Gaza City, where airstrikes are reported to have killed at least 19 people since dawn. Vehicles laden with explosives were also detonated in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood.

Israeli fire killed at least 98 Palestinians in the last 24 hours, according to health officials.

The International Association of Genocide Scholars has passed a resolution saying the legal criteria have been met to establish that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

Israel has repeatedly denied its actions amount to genocide.

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81-year-old Hannah Dankwa, who has cancer, has found herself stranded after taking a trip to see family in Ghana because of what's being described as an 'irregularity' over her date of birth.

Seven years after the Windrush scandal came to light it seems some people from Commonwealth countries who were invited by the government to live and work here in the post war period are still having their British nationality challenged.

A Home Office spokesperson said: “While we do not comment on individual passport applications, a passport is only issued once all checks are satisfactorily completed.”

We also contacted the Windrush Commissioner. They did not respond.

[Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) @MIT]

What if the brain’s massive memory power isn’t just about neurons? MIT researchers reveal that astrocytes, long-overlooked support cells, might be key to our mind’s vast storage capacity. https://t.co/yEiWDe3rSS

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Furious protestors heckled US Vice President JD Vance as he arrived to visit the National Guard in Washington DC.

Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth and White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller also received boos.

Donald Trump's deployment of National Guard troops in the US capital aims to crackdown on crime in the state.

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The decision to expand the war in Gaza has sparked large demonstrations within Israel.

Today, hundreds of thousands took to the streets as part of a general strike - demanding a deal to end the war and return all remaining hostages.

[Phys.org @physorg_com]

#A detailed radio image of blazar PKS 1424+240 reveals a #Jet aimed at Earth, explaining its intense gamma-ray and neutrino emissions and resolving a long-standing astrophysical mystery. @AandA_journal https://t.co/vYnFXu8jt1 https://t.co/vlDEN5zSB1

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Channel 4 News spoke to Palestinian journalist Yara Eid who paid tribute to Anas Al Sharif - one of Aljazeera's most prominent voices in Gaza - who was killed.

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ME, or Myalgic encephalomyelitis, is linked to your genetics, an early study by Decode ME has suggested.

They’ve found eight areas of genetic code in people with ME are ‘significantly different’ to the DNA of people without the disease.

The results still need to be reviewed, but the University of Edinburgh research team hope these results will pave the way for future research and the development of drugs.

[Alexander Kokcharov @alex_kokcharov]

The European Commission is investigating a series of unusual flights from Minsk, Belarus, to Benghazi, Libya, amid growing concern that Russia may be helping to drive a new wave of irregular migration to the EU:

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“Nothing can justify what's going on in Gaza right now."

Trauma surgeon Morgan McMonagle, who worked in Gaza this year, tells @krishgm he’s angry that the West is “allowing” the crisis to unfold.

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Children in Gaza are "paying the highest price" of the conflict between Israel and Hamas, says the Gaza Programme coordinator for the children’s aid organisation International Network for Aid, Relief and Assistance.

She added that children in the Gaza Strip are "facing a very catastrophic situation".

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Malnourishment is soaring" and "starvation is knocking on every door" the UN secretary general has warned, describing the situation in Gaza as a ‘horror show’.

There are very distressing scenes from the start of this report.

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

It waited for the sun to set but the tree got there first ...

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“Teenagers being shot by Israeli soldiers.”

Nick Maynard is a British gastrointestinal surgeon, who is currently in Gaza, working at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. 

We began by asking him what he can tell us about the shootings near the aid distribution sites this morning.

[Alexander Kokcharov @alex_kokcharov]

Russia's security services reportedly ran training camps in Bosnia and Serbia to train Moldova nationals on how to disrupt and destabilise the upcoming Moldovan parliamentary election in September 2025:

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