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The Hazy History of Air on Saturn’s Moon Titan
“Titan provides an extraordinary environment to better understand some of the chemical processes that led to the appearance of...
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Ancient Mud Volcanoes Perfect for Early Life
To learn more about life’s origins, scientists investigated some of the oldest remnants of crust on Earth—rocks 3.7 billion...
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An Epoch Debate
An influential group of geologists, ecologists, and biologists argue that humans have so changed the planet that it is...
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Was the Universe Born Whirling?
If the idea stands up, it is a bombshell. The universe is not the same wherever you look; it...
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What Will Happen to Us?
Serious futurologists are not a large group yet. “It’s a fairly new area of inquiry,” says Nick Bostrom, an...
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Agriculture’s Role in Our Societies Not So Simple
The tidy picture of seemingly inevitable social “progress” following the appearance of domesticated plants is challenged by a study...
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Genetic Mutation May Have Led to Rise of Humans
A genetic mutation possibly linked to malarial resistance may have helped drive the evolution of the genus Homo, humans’...
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New Geological Epoch Made by Humans
Welcome to the warm Anthropocene. The growing volume of global temperature data adds to the evidence that we have...
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Opinion: The Universe, Dark Energy, and Us
Even in stringent times, it seems like a good idea to do some science to find out what the...
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Denisovan DNA in the Islands, and an Australian Genome
Many human geneticists have argued our present pattern of diversity originated in a wave of successive founder effects coming...