Tiny bits of quartz record the intensity of fires from hundreds or even thousands of years ago, potentially offering new ways to study historic fires and how heat affects soil.
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Halley Mastro slid a petri dish of liquid speckled with floating debris under a microscope. After adjusting the focus, she let a journalist visiting her.
A large portion of Greenland was an ice-free tundra landscape perhaps covered by trees and roaming wooly mammoths in the recent geologic past (about 416,000 years ago), according to a new study in the journal Science.