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Not to sound too much like a science teacher (which I am) - New Scientist is NOT a peer reviewed journal...which means that pretty much any theory/idea/study can be published, whether it is a good or bad study.
News sources are not peer reviewed journals, but rather use articles in peer reviewed journals as basis for their articles.... Perhaps this one did not, as I don't recognize the .org link that shows the data, but frequently CNN/AP/whatever articles cite research published in Journal of Geophysical Research, etc. The goal is to explain the cutting edge research in layman's terms... sometimes this does mean a little of the science is incorrect, but generally, it works out for the best.
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