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Long Ago, the Number of Meteors Hitting Earth Spiked Suddenly – and Didn’t Stop

Vasudevan Mukunth 18/01/2019

Something happened in the Solar System about 300 million...

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Infinite in All Directions: Sokal Squared, Sex and Gender, Life as a Jellyfish

Vasudevan Mukunth 03/11/2018

It has escaped mainstream attention that the Sokal Squared...

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How Biological Responses May Help Avert Another Mass Extinction of Species

Raghu Murtugudde 07/07/2018

While the sixth extinction may well be a justified...

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Why We Suspect Earth’s Journey Around the Sun Had a Say in How Life Evolved

Lakshmi Supriya 30/05/2018

It all began with a big debate: were the...

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A New Way to Measure the Five Death-Blows Earth Dealt to Its Life

Sarah Iqbal 23/05/2018

Scientists extended the idea behind a discovery made in...

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What Does It Mean to Be Alive in the Human Epoch?

C.P. Rajendran 14/03/2018

Climate change is not simply a technological challenge as...

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A Brief History of Earth: The Rock From Space That Wiped Out the Dinosaurs – and Much Else

Sandhya Ramesh 06/02/2017

The asteroid chunk was nearly 15 km in diameter...