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On August 7th, 2020, two cousins, a neighbour and their families decided to cook...
Archaeology, Chemistry

Ancient Sous-vide: is cooking in hot springs repeating the behaviour of our ancestors?

Author Jennifer Keute Date March 9, 2021
Jennifer Keute
Tagged archaeological science, archaeology, Olduvai Gorge, paleo-climate, Yellowstone National Park | Leave a comment |
An abandoned surgical mask on a Dublin pavement during my casual afternoon walk last...
Archaeology

Archaeology from the future: The material culture of Covid-19

Author Vana Orfanou Date December 29, 2020
Vana Orfanou
Tagged archaeology, Covid-19, material culture, social crisis | Leave a comment |
SciSnack is now broadening its scope to include archaeology and in October we kickstarted...
News

Introducing ArchaeoSnack

Author Vana Orfanou Date November 12, 2020
Vana Orfanou
Tagged archaeological science, archaeology | Leave a comment |
Between the warm tropics and the cold polar regions exists a broad belt of...
Air, Climate, Sea

How do heat and moisture from the ocean influence our weather in midlatitudes?

Author Kristine Flacké Haualand Date October 19, 2020
Kristine Flacké Haualand
Tagged baroclinicity, cold sector, heat and moisture from ocean, horisontal temperature gradients, midlatitude cyclones, North Atlantic storm track, storm development, surface fluxes | Leave a comment |
On land, life is almost completely dependent on photosynthesis. Plants utilize carbon dioxide and...
Biology, Chemistry

The deep sea is completely dark – How does life thrive there without photosynthesis?

Author Henrike Wilborn Date April 15, 2020
Henrike Wilborn
Tagged Chemosynthesis, Deep sea, Extreme environments, Ocean, Seafloor hydrothermal systems | Leave a comment |
While working on tiny plant fossils from the sediment cores I am studying, I...
Culture, Earth, People, Society

Research on remote islands – Where your closest neighbor is an astronaut

Author Maaike Zwier Date March 26, 2020
Maaike Zwier
Tagged Antarctica, climatesnack, exploring, history, International Space Station, island, scientific exploration | Leave a comment |
Every 3.2 seconds another person gets dementia! The most common form of dementia, up...
Biology, Health

Can we detect Alzheimer’s disease earlier?

Author Samaneh Abolpour Mofrad Date December 13, 2019
Samaneh Abolpour Mofrad
Tagged Alzheimer's Disease, Dementia, Machine Learning, Mild Cognitine Impairment | Leave a comment |
Greenstone belts record the Earths early evolution. They are geological structures of volcanic and...
Earth

Can a greenstone belt be used as a key to the past?

Author Harald Hansen Date November 11, 2019
Harald Hansen
Tagged Early Life on Earth, geology, tectonics | Leave a comment |
In the petroleum industry, we use exploration seismology to obtain some properties of rocks below...
Earth, Physics

What seismic data tell us about rocks below our feet

Author Kui Xiang Date October 23, 2019
Kui Xiang
Tagged Helmholtz equations, Rock properties, Seismic data | Leave a comment |
The past decades of solar system exploration have revealed that Mars used to have...
Earth, Land

Ancient Lakes on Mars: Opportunities for past life

Author Elise Harrington Date October 21, 2019
Elise Harrington
Tagged aliens, astrobiology, lakes, Mars, paleolakes | Leave a comment |
Midlatitude weather is highly dominated by cyclones that typically form over the ocean and...
Air, Climate

How can evaporation of rain calm down the weather?

Author Kristine Flacké Haualand Date August 26, 2019
Kristine Flacké Haualand
Tagged condensation, cyclone development, evaporation of rain, latent cooling, latent heat, midlatitude cyclone, moist effects | Leave a comment |
The thick, white fog outside the airport window left no doubt about the reason...
Air, Climate

Improving weather forecasts in the Arctic

Author Matilda Hallerstig Date May 2, 2019
Matilda Hallerstig
Tagged Arctic, icing, numerical weather prediction, polar lows, Weather forecasting | Leave a comment |
Geoscientists have been arguing for over a hundred years how the Norwegian mountains came...
Earth

The rise of the Norwegian mountains

Author Åse Hestnes Date April 29, 2019
Åse Hestnes
Tagged Isostatic uplift, Mountains, Norwegian landscape, Norwegian mountains | Leave a comment |
There is much more to mud than mud masks and mud castles. Mud can...
Chemistry, Climate, Earth, Sea, Systems

What’s in mud

Author Anne Morée Date April 4, 2019
Anne Morée
Tagged carbon isotopes, climate PhD, oceanography, publication | Leave a comment |
Chew Bahir on the border of Kenya and Ethiopia is a tough and merciless...
Climate, Culture, Earth, Land, People

Did the mega-lakes of Ethiopia make us human?

Author Markus L Fischer Date January 15, 2019
Markus L Fischer
Tagged Climate, Climate change, landscapes, Modelling, Precipitation | Leave a comment |
“And what project are you working on?” With these seven words, I knew the...
Society

Impostor syndrome: The enemy within

Author Andrew Seidl Date January 10, 2019
Andrew Seidl
Tagged academia, impostor syndrome, psychology | 1 Comment |
Various predictions have forecast that within the next five to twenty years greenhouse gases...
Climate, Land, People

Promises and caveats of solar geoengineering on the land

Author Yuanchao Fan Date January 7, 2019
Yuanchao Fan
Tagged aerosol geoengineering, climate change and politics, climate change solutions, Geoengineering | Leave a comment |
SciSnack will celebrate it’s 7th year of existence in 2019, and it’s about time...
News

SciSnack: The Next Generation

Author Mathew Stiller-Reeve Date December 13, 2018
Mathew Stiller-Reeve
Tagged climatesnack, leadership, SciSnack | Leave a comment |
Despite popular opinion, the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River is not the deepest...
Earth

Exploring the History of Hells Canyon – the Deepest Canyon In North America

Author Matthew Morriss Date November 28, 2018
Matthew Morriss
Tagged Deepest Canyon in North America, geomorphology, Hells Canyon, Snake River | Leave a comment |
We set sail from Iceland on Research Vessel G.O. Sars, in July 2015, to...
Climate, Sea

Big ocean temperature change recorded in tiny fossils!

Author Evangeline Sessford Date November 26, 2018
Evangeline Sessford
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