That tiny yeast could survive with a 5,300-year-old corpse feels unlikely, almost speculative. However, the frozen remains of Ötzi, the Bronze Age “iceman” preserved in the Alps in a controlled museum room in northern Italy, have provided scientists with an unexpected testing ground. After decades of research, attention gradually shifted from bones, tools and clothing … Read more
In a cold storage facility in northern Italy, Ötzi the Iceman lies behind controlled glass and steel, maintaining a steady chill that mimics the glacier that once sealed him away. He has been there since 1991, when hikers stumbled upon what appeared to be a recently buried body in the melting ice of the Ötztal … Read more
A historic building deep in Loch Borgastail provides information about human existence more than 5,000 years ago. It now appears that this building is just a stone island, formerly a wooden structure carefully built by Neolithic people. The age of this ancient structure makes it older than other famous landmarks such as Stonehenge. This structure … Read more
Psychrobacter SC65A.3 is a 5,000-year-old cold-adapted bacterium that is resistant to many modern antibiotics / AI illustration A team of Romanian researchers has discovered a bacterium that has been preserved in underground ice deposits for about 5,000 years and has become resistant to the effects of many modern antibiotics. The organism, discovered from the Skarisoara … Read more