A glaciologist's expedition to remote Antarctica

To understand the glaciers holding back meters of sea level rise, climate scientists swoop in to extract ice from Antarctica’s remote west coast.

Burying dead trees could reduce carbon emissions

The discovery of an eastern red cedar log, buried in eastern Canada for millennia and nearly perfectly preserved, illustrates the potential of a new kind of carbon storage scheme in the fight against climate change: wood “vaults.” Read the paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adm8133

How spores spread between infected plants

Using a high-speed camera and smoke and pollen particles, researchers are modeling how infected spores spread from plants. #ScienceTok #STEM

Origins of multicellularity pushed back

These microscopic algalike fossils took evolutionary biologists by surprise with their extreme age. RESEARCH: Miao et al., Science Advances 2024 PHOTOS: Nicholas J. Butterfield/Wikimedia; The Natural History Museum, London/Science Source