Mouse Mummies Show Life Persists in Mars-like Environment

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October 27, 2023

Animals Mouse Mummies Show Life Persists in Mars-like Environment Tiny mice found mummified at the summits of Andean volcanoes appear to be living in the harsh environment, which resembles Mars more than it does Earth By Meghan Bartels

Astronomy The Sun's Magnetic Poles Are Vanishing The sun's magnetic poles are about to reverse as part of a regular 11-year sunspot activity cycle By Meghan Bartels

Climate Change Earth's Latest 'Vital Signs' Show the Planet Is in Crisis The overall picture of Earth's health is grim, although there are bright spots: solar and wind power are on the rise, and deforestation has slowed By Meghan Bartels

Water Depleted Groundwater Could Be Refilled by Borrowing a Trick from Solar Power In many places around the world, groundwater is being pumped out faster than nature replenishes it. A new model points to a possible solution By Erica Gies

Sponsor Content Provided by Columbia Global Reports Rivals: How Science Works – ON SALE NOW! In RIVALS, acclaimed historian of science Lorraine Daston offers a fascinating overview of the genesis of scientific collaboration—from the late 17th to the early 21st centuries—through the creation of two enormous projects: the Carte du Ciel, and the International Cloud Atlas.

Sex & Gender To Understand Sex, We Need to Ask the Right Questions The answer to the question of how many sexes exist differs depending on the context By Charles Roseman,Cara Ocobock

Climate Change The World Solved Acid Rain. We Can Also Solve Climate Change Lessons from how we tackled acid rain can be applied to our world today By Hannah Ritchie

Nutrition Spicy Food Probably Doesn't Cause Long-Term Harm While spicy food can cause pain, it isn't linked to higher mortality rates By Paul D. Terry,The Conversation US

Climate Change How to Save Greenland's Massive Ice Sheet The Greenland Ice Sheet could experience runaway melting if the world overshoots climate targets, but even then quick action could stabilize it By Alexandra Witze,Nature magazine

Animals The Tale of the Rotifer That Came Back to Life after 25,000 Years in an Icy Tomb Can something spring back to life if it last moved around when woolly mammoths roamed the earth? The answer appears to be yes. By Karen Hopkin | 05:44

Natural Disasters Hurricane Otis Came Out of Nowhere to Slam into Mexico Tropical Storm Otis rapidly intensified into a Category 5 hurricane overnight in a region that has never seen landfall by a storm of such power before By Meghan Bartels

Mathematics All Natural Numbers Are Either Happy or Sad. Some Are Narcissistic, Too The number 1 is among the happiest numbers, 4 is sad, and both are narcissistic By Manon Bischoff

Astronomy Astronomers May Have Witnessed Worlds in Collision A planet-vaporizing impact is the leading explanation for a distant star's curiously fluctuating light By Lyndie Chiou,Lee Billings

BRING SCIENCE HOME Vanishing Baking Soda Can a solid start to disappear into thin air? Try this mysterious activity--and see what happens when things heat up!  Credit: George Retseck Baking soda is not only great for cooking, but it is also a useful chemical for science projects. You have probably heard about and maybe even used the baking soda–vinegar reaction to make homemade volcanoes erupt, shoot bottle rockets up in the air or to detect acids and bases. There are many more chemical reactions, however, that you can explore with the help of baking soda. One of them is called a decomposition reaction, which makes baking soda lose weight! Want to find out how it works?

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