Kate Lunau

Kate Lunau is a health and science writer at Maclean's Magazine, who previously reported for the Montreal Gazette. She's the recipient of several journalism awards, including the 2014 Yves Fortier Earth Science Journalism Award, and has been nominated for two National Magazine Awards. Like Elon Musk, she hopes to retire on Mars.
The Iceman’s reconstruction.  South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology/A. Ochsenreiter
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Inside the guts of the Iceman

DNA researchers probed bacteria inside one of the world’s most famous mummies. Here’s what those microbes can tell us about human migration.