Was it habitable to Mars old? NASA’s perseverance rover is becoming a ‘strange and non -cooperative’ rock to discover

NASA’s perseverance rover is deepening in the geological past of Mars as it begins to grind on the rock surfaces of the red planet to expose material that could contain clues about the old environment and habitability of the planet. Earlier this month, the perseverance rover used its abrasion tool to extract the upper layer…

Read More

Feel the burn

When I need to get out of my head, I go to Ellwood. This stretch of cliffs along the coast in western schooner has trails through open grasslands and small roads that end up to a wide beach, where you can find forts of drift wood and views to the islands of the channel. At…

Read More

[Botany • 2025] Boswellia orpedionis (burseraceae) • A new species of Socotra incense tree, and notes on B. AMEERO and B. Bullata.

Embrace the new species Boswellia orpedionis Thulin and MHWEBER are described, illustrated by photographs and mapped. This tree is only known by a small population that grows in the level limestone in the Qatariyah plateau in southern Socotra and is the twelfth endemic species of Boswellia Of the Socotra archipelago. Differs from B. Dioscoridis Thulin…

Read More