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Caves are stunning. One minute you’re walking past layered cake, swirls of buttercream the next, and then by sugared icicles that drip gobs of gooey batter. Okay, I may have been a little hungry when I visited Howe’s Cave in… Continue Reading →
A 46,000-year-old worm has been revived from the Russian permafrost—could deadly germs be next? In 2020, I wrote a series of blog posts about whether ancient microbes could survive millennia in the ice. As it turns out, some can. This… Continue Reading →