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When you envision what it looks like around the North Pole, you probably imagine...
Air, Ice, Sea

The ultimate jigsaw puzzle: Cracking Arctic sea ice

Author Henrike Wilborn Date October 6, 2022
Henrike Wilborn
Tagged Arctic, cracks, North Pole, Ocean, Sea-ice, warming | Leave a comment |
Stable water isotopes (SWIs) have been used in meteorology since the 1950s, but they...
Air, Climate

Stable water isotopes: a powerful – but often overlooked – tool in the meteorological toolbox

Author Andrew Seidl Date August 26, 2022
Andrew Seidl
Tagged isotopes, meteorology, Water | Leave a comment |
The archaeology of food and why bog butter is special We eat food every...
Archaeology

Why 4,000 year old butter is actually really cool

Author Karen O-Toole Date June 17, 2022
Karen O-Toole
Tagged archaeology, bog butter, Ireland, prehistory | Leave a comment |
In 2006, a group of atmospheric scientists published a paper with a plot where...
Climate

How (not) to lie with colors

Author Matilda Hallerstig Date May 2, 2022
Matilda Hallerstig
Tagged colors, diverging data, endrainbow, perceptually uniform, rainbow palette, sequential data | Leave a comment |
  As a person living in England, the COVID-19 lockdowns of 2020-21 meant a...
Archaeology, Health, Society

Eat out to help out or eat in to stay alive: how have modern and historical pandemics changed our eating habits?

Author Alice Rose Date April 27, 2022
Alice Rose
Tagged archaeology, Black Death, Covid-19, diet, food consumption, pandemics | Leave a comment |
How can a story connect a Goose God, a Ghost God with laser-blasting eyes...
Archaeology, Culture, Society

Death, chaos and geese in ancient Egypt

Author Elena Valianatou Date April 6, 2022
Elena Valianatou
Tagged #afterlife, #death, #egypt, #geese, #gods, archaeology, underworld | Leave a comment |
group of 7 beer glasses raised for a toast The self-proclaimed beer archaeologist of Avery Brewing Co., Travis Rupp, regrets that due to...
Archaeology, Chemistry

Walk Like An Egyptian, Drink Like A Viking

Author Maura Griffith Date March 4, 2022
Maura Griffith
Tagged archaeology, beer, history of beer | Leave a comment |
“But I just need a quick image for my lecture/online article” Once upon a...
Outreach, Society, Uncategorized

Google Images can be a treacherous friend

Author Matilda Hallerstig Date November 22, 2021
Matilda Hallerstig and Andreas H. Opsvik
Tagged copyright, creative commons, immaterial rights | Leave a comment |
Cactus plant in brass pot. As the scene from Monty Python’s Life of Brian goes, the Romans have given...
Archaeology, Chemistry

What have the Romans ever done for us? How about gold from stone!

Author Vana Orfanou Date June 15, 2021
Vana Orfanou
Tagged alchemy, archaeology, archaeometallurgy, brass, chemistry, copper, Romans, zinc | Leave a comment |
A series of punch cards in the foreground, gold and red patterned fabric in background. Coming in at a measly 2.39 MB, the 1993 videogame Doom has been played...
Archaeology

Threads of History: How a 28,000-year-old technology could run ‘Doom’

Author Maura Griffith Date June 7, 2021
Maura Griffith
Tagged archaeology, binary code, computers, technology, weaving | Leave a comment |
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, Society

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 |
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