biology
Rebel Cell: Book Review
Posted in Medicine, Reviews, Science on 27th Jun, 2021
by Alex Muller
Geneticist and award-winning science writer Kat Arney takes the reader back to the dawn of life on planet Earth right up to the present day to get to the heart of what cancer really is and how by better understanding it we might one day overcome it. There is PTN's review of the book.
Life on Mars could be Hidden Underground
Posted in Science on 4th May, 2021
by Alex Muller
With technologies like transient electromagnetic sounding, Tarnas says, researchers can get an idea of where and how much water is hiding beneath the surface.
As the planet warms, tropical plants and animals are moving northward
Posted in Science on 1st Apr, 2021
by Alex Muller
New research looks at the northward trek of a variety of tropical species in North America.
Could Life Be Hiding in Our Galaxy’s Ocean Worlds?
Posted in Science on 1st Apr, 2021
by Alex Muller
Scientists hope to send landers to these moons too and more directly sample the oceans below. And although detecting exomoons is still a challenge, more sensitive instruments and creative new methods may, in the future, yield insight into how frequently they occur and what they're made of.
Lightning Strikes May Have Provided Missing Ingredient for Earth's First Organisms
Posted in Science on 31st Mar, 2021
by Alex Muller
On early Earth, there would have ranged from 100 million to 1 billion lightning strikes a year