Animal mummies unwrapped with hi-res 3D X-rays

Cortez Deacetis

Three mummified animals from historic Egypt have been digitally unwrapped and dissected by researchers, working with high-resolution 3D scans that give unprecedented depth about the animals’ lives – and deaths – about 2000 several years back. The three animals – a snake, a chook and a cat – are from […]

California Looks to Battle Mega Wildfires with Fire

Cortez Deacetis

Kyburz, Calif.—Near the major of a seven,000-foot ridge in California’s Sierra Nevada, crews wielding gasoline-dripping torches began igniting piles of smaller logs and branches on an unusually cold early morning late final September. Disregarding snow flurries and light rain, they trudged from 1 pile to an additional, nursing the flames […]