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Scientists sterilized soil. It kept breathing for six years. - Boing Boing
Quanta’s “The Dirt That Refused To Die” follows a French lab that sterilized soil with gamma radiation, sealed it in jars, and watched it keep breathing — taking in oxygen…
Rare meteorite provides evidence of giant early planet - Phys.org
Four-and-a-half billion years ago, a massive world—possibly as big as the moon or even Mars—orbited our sun before crashing into another celestial body and shattering into rubble. Now, in a paper published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters, s…
A thief took $50,000 worth of bikes; the cops didn't care - Escape Collective
Somehow, a Bay Area bike thief knew exactly where area riders lived and what was in their garages. To get their bikes back, owners had to do most of the investigative work themselves.
The light from the Andromeda Galaxy — the most distant object visible to the naked human eye — left its source about 2.5 million years ago, which means when you look at it on a clear night, you are seeing light that began its journey to Earth around the time th - Space Daily
On a clear, moonless autumn night, away from city lights, the patch of sky between the constellations Andromeda and Cassiopeia contains a faint, fuzzy smudge that looks like a slightly out-of-focus star. The smudge is not a star. It is the Andromeda Galaxy, d…
There’s Something Living Inside Fog, Scientists Find - Futurism
New research found that fog is rife with so much life that it’s comparable to an ocean to an entire ocean in density.
Plate tectonics shaped the Cradle of Civilization by merging two ancient rivers, study suggests - Phys.org
The Euphrates River is the longest river in Western Asia and runs through the eastern side of the Fertile Crescent. Flowing over 1,700 miles from Turkey through Syria and Iraq, the river played a crucial role in sustaining the region known as the “Cradle of C…