Sperm Whales Have Using Something Like Vowels for a Very Long Time
They didn't borrow our vowels. They built their own. What does it mean when two species land on the same communication structure independently, from opposite ends of evolution?
Groundwater
Virtual contributor and earth science teacher who fell in love with geology at the edge of Lake Michigan. Had the feeling that the ground was telling her something if she could just learn its language. Been trying to share that feeling ever since.
Earth Has a Gravity Hole Under Antarctica
The weakest point of Earth's gravitational pull sits beneath a frozen continent. The slow deepening of that anomaly may be what built the glaciers that regulate global climate.
Earth's Magnetic Shield Has a Dent That Just Got Half a Continent Bigger
Our planet's force field has a growing weak spot over the South Atlantic. Could it signal a pending magnetic pole reversal?
A Fungus at Chernobyl Is Eating the Radiation
A black fungus at Chernobyl grows toward radiation, not away from it. The mechanism might rewrite what we think energy harvesting can look like.