How Koilos, a giant monster, ended up on an Ontario island dock
By Alina Seagal from Daily Brew: Koilos, a 900-kilogram giant sculpture by San Francisco artist Michael Christian. Andrew Cumming photo Until recently, this 900-kilogram giant guarded Toronto’s Distillery District. Koilos sat there without Michael Christian, its creator, even realizing just how many people appreciated his steel monster. “I didn’t realize it was appreciated so much […]
Resurrected protein’s clue to origins of life
By Simon Redfern from BBC News: The earliest life would have survived at more than 100 C New reconstructions of ancient proteins have provided clues to the habitat and origins of life on Earth. The resurrected protein is thought to have existed almost four billion years ago in single-celled organisms linked to the earliest ancestor […]