Scientists identify key source that could be feeding Iceland’s hotbed of volcanic activity

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. After 800 years of dormancy, volcanoes have awakened on Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula, about 56 kilometers south of the capital Reykjavik. Since 2021, a series of eruptions have disrupted daily life in the densely populated area, … Read more

Scientists identify the main source that could fuel Iceland’s hotbed of volcanic activity

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. After 800 years of dormancy, volcanoes have awakened on Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula, about 56 kilometers south of the capital Reykjavik. Since 2021, a series of eruptions have disrupted daily life in the densely populated area, … Read more

Senate hearing examines origins of COVID-19: takeaways

A Senate hearing on the origins of the COVID-19 virus explored the leading theories, with lawmakers and witnesses trading arguments about what they believed. The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee heard from four scientific experts about what current information suggests about the onset of SARS-CoV-2. The theory of natural origins, the laboratory leak … Read more

Bite mark analysis has no scientific basis, experts now say. Why is it still used in court?

Even now, as a free man, Keith Harward finds it difficult to explain what it was like to sit in a courtroom, on trial for a rape and murder he knew he didn’t commit, watching him someone considered an expert testifies with certainty to that bite. The marks on the victim’s leg matched his teeth. … Read more