Life – Metanexus

Four Reasons You Shouldn’t Exist
By the Editor on September 3, 2013
You’re almost unfathomably lucky to exist, in almost every conceivable way. Don’t take it the wrong way. You, me,...
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Are We Martians After All?
By the Editor on August 30, 2013
If you looked in a mirror this morning, you may have seen a descendant of creatures from Mars. That...
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Mass extinctions: Small but deadly
By the Editor on July 29, 2013
AS EVERY schoolchild knows, the dinosaurs were wiped out in an instant, when a rock from outer space hit...
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Changing View on Viruses: Not So Small After All
By the Editor on July 18, 2013
There was a time not that long ago when it was easy to tell the difference between viruses and...
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The Surprising Origins of Life’s Complexity
By the Editor on July 17, 2013
Charles Darwin was not yet 30 when he got the basic idea for the theory of evolution. But it...
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Praise Darwin! (an evolution revival with Charlie Varon)
By Connie Barlow on July 15, 2013
Comedian Charlie Varon "saves" his audience from worldly despair. Fourteen minutes of entertainment and scientific education culminates in a...
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The Scrotum Is Nuts
By the Editor on July 9, 2013
Soccer fans call it brave goalkeeping, the act of springing into a star shape in front of an attacker...
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Dinosaur Extinction & Chicxulub Asteroid Impact Most Likely Coincided, Study Says
By the Editor on February 8, 2013
The idea that a cosmic impact ended the age of dinosaurs in what is now Mexico now has fresh...
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WTF Evolution?
By the Editor on February 8, 2013
WTF Evolution? is a website honoring natural selection's most baffling creations.
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Beloved Immortals: Science, Miracles and ‘Jellyfish Time’
By the Editor on January 26, 2013
What is biological immortality? To be fair, it’s not the promise of a paradisiacal garden. Neither is it the...
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