How Scientists Just Baked Sourdough Bread Using 5,300-Year-Old Mummy Yeast
For more than three decades, the naturally mummified remains of Ötzi the Iceman have been kept in a hyper-controlled, sub-zero chamber at the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, Italy. Suspended at a constant temperature of minus 6 degrees Celsius (21 degrees Fahrenheit) and a relative hum ...