Guardian: Boring is beautiful when youre studying a calamity, especially one as spectacular as the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs. Thats because exciting sediments, full of variations and gaps, make it hard to disentangle the extinction signal from the noise of natural variability.
So you could say that James Witts, of the University of Leeds in the UK, lucked-out with an especially boring batch of sediments in Seymour Island on the Antarctic Peninsula (the part on the map that points up...