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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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