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The First Direct Image of a Baby Planet Being Born! (Maybe!) (But Probably!)
Astronomers may have, for the first time, directly imaged a planet still in the process of formation, gathering material...
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Ancestor of All Living Things More Sophisticated Than Thought
The mysterious common ancestor of all life on Earth may have been more complex than before thought—a sophisticated organism...
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History That’s Written in Beads as Well as in Words
A small cadre of diverse collaborators in anthropology, archaeology, primatology, genetics, and linguistics have spent the last two and...
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Opinion: An Electrifying Ancestor
We know we got here from somewhere, but who would have suspected it was by way of a fish...
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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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E.O. Wilson’s Theory of Everything
At 82, the famed biologist E.O. Wilson arrived in Mozambique last summer with a modest agenda—save a ravaged park;...
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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...