Made famous in the 1981 film ‘Indiana Jones and the Raiders’ of the Lost Ark, many of you will have seen pictures of the mysterious stone balls of Costa Rica, hundreds of seemingly perfect spheres of hard igneous rock that were discovered in the Diquis Delta. No, they aren’t ancient booby traps for tombs robbers, […]
How did life on Earth truly originate? This scientific mystery remains unsolved, but we may be close to solving it every day. We know that the first organisms were very simple and consisted of only one cell, but now we also know that these humble organisms likely lived in hydrothermal vents located deep in the […]