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Science News Roundup: Dutch ‘living coffin’ aims to provide source for life after death; Remains of Jurassic sea predator found in Chile’s Atacama desert and more – Devdiscourse
Colombian miners strike fossilized gold: a mastodon Fossils of a mastodon, a giant prehistoric relative of today’s elephants, have been discovered at an artisanal gold mine in central Colombia in a find which researchers say could herald a trove of similar s…
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Dutch ‘living coffin’ aims to provide source for life after death
A Dutch start-up has created a biodegradable “living coffin” made of a fungus, instead of wood, which it says can convert a decomposing human body into key nutrients for plants. The company, Loop, says its casket is made of mycelium, the underground root structure of mushrooms, and filled with a bed of moss to stimulate decomposition.
Colombian miners strike fossilized gold…
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