The microscopic yeast that could survive in association with a 5,300-year-old body feels unlikely, almost speculative. Yet the frozen remains of Ötzi, the Copper Age “Iceman” preserved in the Alps and housed in a controlled museum chamber in northern Italy, have provided scientists with an unexpected testing ground for that possibility.

What’s the difference between a person, an artifact, and an ecosystem?

Wetenschappers zijn erin geslaagd om zuurdesembrood te bakken met gist dat in de maag en op de huid van de bevroren ijsmummie Ötzi is gevonden. Het bleken bovendien onbekende…