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Belief in Evolution Boils Down to a Gut Feeling
Intuitive reasoning may help explain why some people are more accepting of evolution than others.
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Not By Asteroid Alone: Rethinking the Cretaceous Mass Extinction
At the end of the Cretaceous period some 65 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula,...
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Education, Religion … Evolution?
The evidence is clear, as in a February 2009 Gallup Poll, taken on the eve of the 200th anniversary...
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Multicellular Life Evolves in Laboratory
An evolutionary transition that took several billion years to occur in nature has happened in a laboratory, and it...
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Volunteers Wanted for Planet Hunt
Members of the public are being asked to join the hunt for nearby planets that could support life.Volunteers can...
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More Earth-like Planets Discovered by NASA
It’s another batch of newly discovered earth-like planets, according to NASA officials. U.S. space agency officials announced they have...
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The First Oxygen Users?
None of us would be here today if, billions of years ago, a tiny, single-celled organism hadn’t started using...
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Can A Scientist Define “Life”?
Defining life poses a challenge that’s downright philosophical. There’s no ambiguity in looking for water, because we have a...
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Before DNA, Before RNA: Life in the Hodge-Podge World
Because RNA can do many things at once, those studying the origins of life have long thought that it...
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The Big Debate Over the Oldest Life on Earth
Oxford paleontologist Martin Brasier asserts that his fossilized cells are the remains of primitive anaerobic bacteria that lived 3.4...