Ancient indigenous New Mexican community knew how to sustainably coexist with wildfire
IMAGE: Christopher Roos, professor of anthropology at SMU (Southern Methodist University) view more Credit: Christopher Roos DALLAS (SMU) – Wildfires are the enemy when they threaten homes in California and elsewhere. But a new study led by SMU suggests that people living in fire-prone places can learn to manage fire as an ally to prevent dangerous […]
Ancient indigenous New Mexican community knew how to sustainably coexist with wildfire
Credit: Christopher Roos Wildfires are the enemy when they threaten homes in California and elsewhere. But a new study led by SMU suggests that people living in fire-prone places can learn to manage fire as an ally to prevent dangerous blazes, just like people who lived nearly 1,000 years ago. “We shouldn’t be asking how […]
Italian cops recover stolen da Vinci replica no one knew was missing
An important copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s famous “Salvator Mundi” painting is back in the hands of an Italian museum after being stolen at some point in the last year. No one knew it was missing. Police found the copy, which shows Jesus with his right hand raised in a blessing and the left holding […]
Discovery ‘requires us to rethink everything we thought we knew about peroxisomes’ — ScienceDaily
In his first year of graduate school, Rice University biochemist Zachary Wright discovered something hidden inside a common piece of cellular machinery that’s essential for all higher order life from yeast to humans. What Wright saw in 2015 — subcompartments inside organelles called peroxisomes — is described in a study published today in Nature Communications. […]
