
Sascha Pare
Sascha is a U.K.-based staff writer at Live Science. She holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Southampton in England and a master’s degree in science communication from Imperial College London. Her work has appeared in The Guardian and the health website Zoe. Besides writing, she enjoys playing tennis, bread-making and browsing second-hand shops for hidden gems.
Latest articles by Sascha Pare

Fairy Chimneys: The stone spires in Turkey that form 'the world's most unusual high-rise neighborhood'
By Sascha Pare published
Turkey's magical "fairy chimneys" in Cappadocia were carved out of an ancient volcanic landscape over millions of years before humans turned them into hiding dens.

The Gulf Stream stopped pumping nutrients during the last ice age — and the same could be happening now
By Sascha Pare published
Atlantic currents slowed dramatically during the Younger Dryas period. By reconstructing those ancient ocean conditions, scientists think they can forecast changes over the next century.

Record-shattering Tonga volcanic eruption wasn't triggered by what we thought, new study suggests
By Sascha Pare published
Scientists think Tonga's record-breaking 2022 eruption was triggered by gas building up to a "critical point" rather than by a reaction between magma and seawater as previously assumed.

Siberia's 'gateway to the underworld' is growing a staggering amount each year
By Sascha Pare published
The Batagay megaslump — a 3,250-foot-wide (990 meters) depression in the permafrost in the Russian Far East — is "actively growing" by a massive amount every year, scientists have found.

Hammer-headed bat: The African megabat that looks like a gargoyle and holds honking pageants
By Sascha Pare published
Hammer-headed bats are named after the males' oversized boxy heads, which evolved to amplify and project the honking sounds they produce to impress females during courtship displays.

Cave of Crystals: The deadly cavern in Mexico dubbed 'the Sistine Chapel of crystals'
By Sascha Pare published
The Cave of Crystals in Chihuahua, Mexico, is buried almost 1,000 feet (300 meters) beneath Earth's surface and contains giant gypsum crystal beams that are up to 37 feet (11 m) long.

Asteroid that exploded over Berlin was fastest-spinning space rock ever recorded
By Sascha Pare published
Scientists have calculated the rotational speed of asteroid 2024 BX1, which exploded over Berlin earlier this year, by letting it trail in images of the sky. It turns out, 2024 BX1 was spinning faster than any other near-Earth object ever seen.

DARPA's autonomous 'Manta Ray' drone can glide through ocean depths undetected
By Sascha Pare published
Northrop Grumman Corporation has built its Manta Ray uncrewed underwater vehicle, which will operate long-duration missions and carry payloads into the ocean depths in partnership with DARPA.

Deepest blue hole in the world discovered, with hidden caves and tunnels believed to be inside
By Sascha Pare published
Scientists have yet to reach the bottom of the Taam Ja' Blue Hole in Mexico's Chetumal Bay, which new measurements hint could be connected to a labyrinth of submarine caves and tunnels.

1,430 ancient Roman graves scattered with funerary festival leftovers unearthed in southern France
By Sascha Pare published
Archaeologists in southern France have excavated an ancient Roman cemetery containing 1,430 graves and traces of a funerary festival, during which families feasted by the graves of relatives.

Eerie, orange skies loom over Athens as dust storm engulfs southern Greece
By Sascha Pare published
A Saharan dust storm that reached southern Greece on Tuesday (April 23) has turned the sky over Athens and other Greek cities an apocalyptic reddish-orange hue.

Hidden 'biosphere' of extreme microbes discovered 13 feet below Atacama Desert is deepest found there to date
By Sascha Pare published
Researchers have found microbes thriving 13 feet beneath the scorched surface of Chile's Atacama Desert, marking the deepest discovery of microbial life in the region to date.

After months of sending gibberish to NASA, Voyager 1 is finally making sense again
By Sascha Pare published
NASA's Voyager 1 probe has resumed sending usable data back to Earth after engineers fixed a computer error that caused the interstellar spacecraft to only transmit gibberish for five months.

Scientists discover once-in-a-billion-year event — 2 lifeforms merging to create a new cell part
By Sascha Pare published
Researchers think a microbe that was engulfed by an algal cell 100 million years ago has since evolved into an integral part of the cell's machinery.

What's the largest waterfall in the world?
By Sascha Pare published
If your mind has gone straight to the thundering waters cascading down Venezuela's Angel Falls, think again.

Half of China's cities are sinking, putting most of the country's urban population at risk
By Sascha Pare published
Major cities across eastern China are sinking due to groundwater extraction and the weight of buildings, potentially exposing millions of people to flooding and damage in the next 100 years.

Watch tigress and her cubs feasting on crocodile they killed in rare footage
By Sascha Pare published
Visitors at Ranthambore National Park in India captured rare footage and images of a tigress and her three 1-year-old cubs feasting on the carcass of a crocodile after killing it.

World's oldest wild bird is 'actively courting' after losing long-term mate
By Sascha Pare published
Biologists on Midway Atoll in the North Pacific Ocean have spotted a septuagenarian female Laysan albatross named Wisdom flirting with potential mates months after the end of the nesting season.

Watch hammerhead sharks swim in 'cyclones' around ancient volcano in rare footage
By Sascha Pare published
Filmmakers have captured hundreds of hammerhead sharks circling a volcanic island off Costa Rica for a new Netflix wildlife series.

Prehistoric henge accidentally discovered in England in search for Anglo-Saxon hermit
By Sascha Pare published
Excavations near Crowland Abbey in eastern England have unearthed a prehistoric henge that may have become a "holy island" for Christian hermits in the early medieval period.

Underwater mountain range off Easter Island hosts creatures unknown to science, expedition reveals
By Sascha Pare published
An expedition to the Salas y Gómez Ridge off Rapa Nui in the Pacific Ocean documented 160 species that were not previously known to inhabit the region, including 50 that are new to science.

Waterproof e-gloves could one day help scuba divers communicate with the surface
By Sascha Pare published
Researchers have designed waterproof gloves equipped with sensors that can translate hand gestures into messages, which could help divers communicate better.

77,000 baby salmon survive truck crash in Oregon by leaping into nearby creek
By Sascha Pare published
A truck that was transporting 102,000 spring Chinook salmon to the Imnaha River in northeastern Oregon crashed in a road bend, spilling most of its cargo into a nearby creek.

Extremely rare marsupial mole that 'expertly navigates' sand dunes spotted in Western Australia
By Sascha Pare published
Kanyirninpa Jukurrpa Martu rangers have photographed an elusive mole covered in silky golden locks that burrows in the sands of Western Australia and is only spotted a few times per decade.

8,200-year-old campsite of 'Paleo-Archaic' peoples discovered on US Air Force base in New Mexico
By Sascha Pare published
Military personnel on Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico discovered artifacts, hearths and charcoal dating to the Archaic period that pinpoint the site of an early encampment.
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