Monthly Archive: August 2018
Michael Irving – Scientists have managed to revive worms (similar to the one pictured) that were frozen in the Siberian permafrost for up to 42,000 years (Credit: K-State Research and Extension/CC BY 2.0) The Siberian permafrost is famous for preserving the remains of life …
by Paul Ratner – President Trump was almost universally panned for the press conference that followed the meeting with Russia’s President Putin in Helsinki, Finland. Trump was seen as capitulating to Russia by refusing to confront Putin on the issue of past and …
by Paul Ratner – KIM WON-JIN/AFP/Getty Images At a U.S. House of Representatives hearing on October 12th, experts warned that the greatest existential threat to the country may come from the detonation of a nuclear EMP bomb. It could kill as many …
by Philip Perry – Say you’re engrossed in a task, scrolling through your phone or reading a book. Suddenly that creepy, prickly feeling grabs hold of you. Someone’s staring. You turn to find out who it is. Be they friend or foe, the …
Michael Irving – A set of fossilized human-like footprints in Greece may end up rewriting the story of human evolution (Credit: Andrzej Boczarowski) We share plenty of features with apes, but the shape of our feet isn’t one of them. So that …
