Daily Archives: Mar 14, 2026

Is the third most valued food crop worldwide a product of some unique, unlikely act of hybridisation some centuries ago? New genomic research uncovers that the lowly potato, topping every meal on earth, originated in a spectacular evolutionary crossroads, a one in which wild tomatoes' and kin's gene legacy...

What if the deadliest floods on the planet are the ones that no one can detect until the ice itself bursts? In 2014, a secret lake under the ice sheet of Greenland released a flood so massive it ripped a crater almost a kilometer deep through the ice, unleashing...

At almost 31,000 feet under the surface, where sunlight is a distant memory and pressures would kill a submarine, researchers have discovered animal communities living on chemical energy, not the Sun. The find, in the Kuril–Kamchatka and Aleutian trenches, is not just a demonstration of the strength of life...