Sunset on Pluto [Slide Show]
Sep 23, 2015

By Scientific American

‘Tree of life’ for 2.3 million species released
Sep 23, 2015

By Duke University

NASA Confirms that Enceladus has a Subsurface Ocean
Sep 23, 2015

By FQtQ Contributor

Tree of life with OneZoom and Open Tree
Sep 22, 2015

A sneak preview of the position of humans on the tree of all life, using data from OpenTree and visualisation from OneZoom.org. This is to accompany the second edition of “The Ancestor’s Tale” by Richard Dawkins and Yan Wong, due out before Christmas.

Carbon dating could become a thing of the past due to global warming
Sep 22, 2015

BBC By Science Dump Carbon dating is a very useful technique that scientists use to determine the age of an object. It could be anything from bones to wood, as long as it’s organic material. Fields such as archaeology, geology and ecology use carbon dating on a regular basis, but a new study shows that …