Mary Rose shipwreck skulls go online in 3D
For the first time, skulls and other artefacts from the 1545 wreck of Henry VIII’s warship the Mary Rose are being exhibited online as 3D reconstructions. Researchers from Swansea University […]
Author: Chantal Jager
Study: Earth’s carbon points to planetary smashup
Research by Rice University Earth scientists suggests that virtually all of Earth’s life-giving carbon could have come from a collision about 4.4 billion years ago between Earth and an embryonic […]
Umeå researcher served a world first (?) CRISPR meal
For (probably) the first time ever, plants modified with the “genetic scissors” CRISPR-Cas9 has been cultivated, harvested and cooked. Stefan Jansson, professor in Plant Cell and Molecular Biology at Umeå […]
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Toxic air pollution nanoparticles discovered in the human brain
Tiny magnetic particles from air pollution have for the first time been discovered to be lodged in human brains– and researchers think they could be a possible cause of Alzheimer’s […]
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