Each volume of the Last of the Irin trilogy was drawn by a different artist. Rob McMillan's words were brought to life by Wouter Gort (Volume 1), Laura R. Peinado (Volume 2) and Arseniy Popov ...

CODEX Entry 4008: Ancient origins of the vampires   Early vampires were the Gods or their demi-God offspring who took babies and ‘drank’ blood. Notable in Egypt, was Sekmhet (meaning Mighty One ...

CODEX Entry 8100: MAGMA Power   Experiments in Iceland to heat supercritical water directly from lava, as a geothermal energy source are underway. Supercritical water is at temperatures of 900 to ...

CODEX Entry 3720: Antarctica Military Expeditions   The third German Antarctic Expedition’s main purpose was to establish a German whaling station. 200,000 tons of whale oil was used for m ...

CODEX Entry 6061: Retroviruses   Many different amino acids and other biomolecules may have arrived on Earth from space as evidenced by the Murchison Meteorite. The last universal common ancestor ...

CODEX Entry 6040: Ancient viruses   The French Polar Institute and the Italian National Antarctic Research Programme are working to create a snow cave at the French-Italian Concordia station to ...

CODEX Entry 4380: Dead Vampires in the 18th century   Tragically, from the middle ages until today, vampirism has been combined and confused with corpse mastication, corpse possession, and ...

CODEX Entry 8225: The extinction of Neanderthals   Neanderthals are commonly believed to have died out quite suddenly around 30,000BC. Neanderthal brains were about 15% larger than Homo Sapiens ...

CODEX Entry 9300: UNIVAC 1616   With the death of the fledgling computer company’s chairman and chief financial backer Henry L. Straus in a plane crash on October 25, 1949, EMCC was sold to t ...

CODEX Entry 5500: Edith Cavell   Cavell’s story is particularly resonant because she saved the lives of both Allied and German soldiers. In 1907, Edith Cavell, an English nurse, was recruited t ...