A stretch of streaked grey rock in a remote, windy part of northern Quebec has sparked one of geology’s most heated debates. The Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt (NGB) is a rough outcrop on the eastern shore of Hudson Bay. It may have the oldest intact rocks on Earth, dating back an incredible 4.16 billion years14. If ...
A young star is surrounded by a swirling disk of gas and dust in the depths of the cosmos. This disk is full of alcohol. Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have found methanol, an important organic molecule, in the protoplanetary disk of a star called HD 100453. This star is 330 light-years ...
The universe shouldn’t exist at least, not in a form that allows life. Yet here we are, thinking, questioning, and marveling at the cosmos. The fundamental laws of physics appear fine-tuned with eerie precision. Alter any one of nature’s constant gravity, the speed of light, the mass of an electron even slightly, and stars wouldn’t ...
Alana Theron, BSc in Biodiversity and Ecology
Maria Faith Saligumba
