Sunday SciKu | Storing CO2

This week’s sciku is a reminder that getting serious about reducing atmospheric carbon has to focus on nuclear energy. There’s so much we can do, including turning carbon into useful materials like silicon carbide—but they require large amounts of power, and renewables like wind and solar create too much waste at this scale. It’s not …

Sunday SciKu | Martian Microbes

Everywhere we look on Earth, there’s life, including deep beneath the surface, where microbes cut off from our biosphere for a billion years are still feeding on the energy released by the radioactive decay in rocks. This week, researchers at Brown University published evidence that the same energy source also exists in Martian rocks, providing …