The Volatility of Life
Research reveals that most of Earth’s zinc likely came from ancient, unmelted space rocks, shedding light on how planets form.
Life
The Weakening Pulse of Life
Research reveals Earth’s magnetic field was 30 times weaker 600 million years ago, possibly influencing the rise of complex life by affecting atmospheric oxygen levels.
Ancient Life Off Earth
Using light-capturing proteins in living microbes, scientists have reconstructed what life was like for some of Earth’s earliest organisms. These efforts could help us recognise signs of life on other planets, whose atmospheres may more closely resemble our pre-oxygen planet.
Colours of Distant Life
This poem is inspired by recent research, which has created a colour catalogue to help find life on distant, frozen worlds.
A Complexity of Life
Scattered across the sea the fossilised fingerprints of your invisible touch proclaim the coincidence of our lineage. A single point from which we all emerged,
Jellied Eggs
Between invisible barriers of cool, indifferent oceans transparent medusas dance across clandestine currents. A quorum of gonads sparkling beneath the waves, their immature contents alluringly
Genetic Unmarking
Beneath empty plaques and unmarked plots, the misplaced dead lie resting. The blankness of their generic monuments a simple sleight of hand: these fragmented piles
Breaking Memories
You slide fluently through cool, coastal waters, A balletic grace with unparalleled force That silently slips between the spheres As a distant rumble announces time.
A Dusty Eviction
Within the grimy creases of our home, Lurk microbes poised and floating in the dust; A sullied sign that we are not alone. We
An Unwanted Tomb
With lines on maps too hard to see, Some call for less transparency; The nightmares of an orange clown, As walls go up the life