Tag: Pyrite

Mars could host a deep underground biosphere Scientists estimate that parts of Mars’ would be able to support up to one million microbes per kilogram of rock deep underground.

Posted on October 21, 2021October 21, 2021 by Andrea Corpolongo 523 views

Scientists estimate that parts of Mars’ would be able to support up to one million microbes per kilogram of rock deep underground.

Could “Fools’ Gold” have helped build the first proteins? Scientists measured the forces that allow iron pyrite to help amino acids bind to each other at the bottom of the ocean -- to understand how life may have formed a long time ago.

Posted on September 21, 2020January 15, 2021 by Marcos Jusino-Maldonado 220 views

How and why humans exist are questions that have challenged different cultures ever since the dawn of civilization. Many scientists have taken upon their shoulders the duty of answering these fundamental questions, coming up with several especially creative ideas over the past few decades. One prominent idea is that…

Lasers and Fool’s Gold Give a Glimpse Into Our Ocean’s Past The amount of pyrite in the sea floor gives us an idea of how much oxygen was in the ocean millions of years ago.

Posted on January 30, 2018April 7, 2021 by Daniel Gregory 88 views

The amount of trace elements in ocean pyrite correspond to ocean oxygen concentrations at different points in geologic time.