BIG History – Page 76

What Happened Before the Big Bang?
By the Editor on January 19, 2012
What existed before the big bang? What is the nature of time? Is our universe one of many? On...
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Not By Asteroid Alone: Rethinking the Cretaceous Mass Extinction
By the Editor on January 19, 2012
At the end of the Cretaceous period some 65 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula,...
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Mysterious Galaxy Possibly Made of Dark Matter
By the Editor on January 19, 2012
A team of astronomers has identified a new galaxy that may be made completely of dark matter, the second...
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The Push for Federal GMO Labeling
By the Editor on January 18, 2012
The man behind the popular 2008 documentary Food, Inc. is out with a new project aimed at getting the...
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Say Cheese: Astronomers Aim To Take First Picture of Black Hole
By the Editor on January 18, 2012
Taking a picture of a black hole, an object so gravitationally bound that not even photons of light can...
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Education, Religion … Evolution?
By the Editor on January 18, 2012
The evidence is clear, as in a February 2009 Gallup Poll, taken on the eve of the 200th anniversary...
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The History of Science Informs Our Present and Future
By the Editor on January 18, 2012
Whether we are exploring our family genealogy or the genetic tree of our primate ancestors, all of us have...
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Moroccan Rock Came from Mars
By the Editor on January 17, 2012
A hail of Martian meteorites crashed to Earth last July, and collectors and scientists around the world are snapping...
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Multicellular Life Evolves in Laboratory
By the Editor on January 17, 2012
An evolutionary transition that took several billion years to occur in nature has happened in a laboratory, and it...
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Scientists Nominate Their Favorite Deep, Elegant, Beautiful Explanations
By the Editor on January 17, 2012
Scientists’ greatest pleasure comes from theories that derive the solution to some deep puzzle from a small set of...
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