Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Buried deep in Greenland’s ice sheet lies a puzzling chemical signature that has sparked intense scientific debate.

A sharp spike in platinum concentrations, discovered in an ice core (a cylinder of ice drilled out of ice sheets and glaciers)…

“There are only a couple of things that are so important for your body that there’s a completely innate drive to get it if you fall into deficiency,” Knight said. “Oxygen, food, water, and sodium.”

However, animals like us do not…

Millions of years before dinosaurs began roaming Earth, strange-looking creatures were scuttling across the seabed. They looked like they were wearing spiked helmets, with little eyes on top and a sharp tail sticking out the back.

The horseshoe…

Eric Benbow and some colleagues were having a few beers when Benbow came up with a new term for what they studied: the necrobiome. Though it sounds rather Lovecraftian, the necrobiome simply refers to all the organisms associated with a…