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Thomas Crow

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  • Science Writer, Freelance
  • Science Journalist, Scitech
Perth
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Freelance science writer and research comms in Oz and NZ. He/him.

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Does Project Hail Mary find the limits of life?

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By Thomas Crow Verified
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A scientist wakes up orbiting an alien star 12 light-years from Earth. His crew is dead and his memories are gone. This is how Andy Weir’s book-turned-movie Project Hail Mary begins. We soon learn that the scientist, Ryland Grace, is on a mission to save Earth from a Sun-eating microbe called the astrophage. The (fictional) astrophage baffles scientists by breaking all of life’s known limits. But what are these limits and can they be broken?
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The Earth is rearranging history

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By Thomas Crow Verified, Lisa Lock, Robert Egan Verified
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Credit: Archaeometry (2025). DOI: 10.1111/arcm.70017 Deep below the surface of Murujuga, soil expands and contracts from the passage of water. Each wetting cycle is like a sodden breath from lungs holding fragments of stone and shell. Stone artifacts from millennia of Aboriginal life are pushed up slowly, maybe only a few millimeters each decade. In one final gasp, they break the surface, a thousand-year-old knife lying on the surface, as if dropped yesterday.
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The Earth is Rearranging History

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By Thomas Crow Verified
| Particle Verified
Deep below the surface of Murujuga, soil expands and contracts from the passage of water. Each wetting cycle is like a sodden breath from lungs holding fragments of stone and shell. Stone artefacts from millennia of Aboriginal life are pushed up slowly, maybe only a few millimetres each decade. In one final gasp, they break the surface. A thousand-year-old knife lying on the surface, as if dropped yesterday.
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