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Pocket Science – when enslaved bacteria go bad, gut microbes and fat mice, and stretchy beards of iron
Posted by Ed Yong on March 5, 2010 The Not Exactly Pocket Science experiment continues after the vast majority of people who commented liked the pilot post. I’m really enjoying this, for quite unexpected reasons. It’s forcing me to flex writing muscles that usually don’t get much of a workout. Writing short pieces means being far more economical with language and detail than…
Icebergs are hotspots for life
Posted by Ed Yong on May 17, 2009 Say the word iceberg, and most people are likely to free-associate it with ‘Titanic’. Thanks to James Cameron (and, well, history too), the iceberg now has a reputation as an cold murderous force of nature, sinking both ships and Leonardo DiCaprio. But a new study shows that icebergs are not harbingers of death but hotspots…
Blood Falls – bacteria thrive for millions of years beneath a rusty Antarctic glacier
Posted by Ed Yong on April 17, 2009 Antarctica normally conjures images of white and blue, but the frozen continent can sometimes bear more unexpected colours. Take the Taylor Glacier – when geologist Griffith Taylor first explored it a century ago, he found a bizarre reddish stain that seemed to spill waterfall-like from the glacier’s snout. The area became evocatively known as Blood…