If cocaine affects sharks at all, it does so as an anesthetic, not as a stimulant.
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Over the past 50 years, 27 leap seconds have been added to our time.
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It doesn’t matter how ridiculous a lie is. As long as it is repeated often enough, some people will believe it.
From crocodiles to birds, certain animals managed to survive some of the worst extinction events in world history.
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Does humanity have a moral imperative to seed life on lifeless worlds? And should we avoid colonizing a planet if life already exists there?
Civil engineer Martin Lebek has a brilliant plan to redress the world’s phosphorus imbalance.
Some of the coastal areas were not repopulated for millennia afterward, showing that there was a long-lasting memory of this tragic event.
“A modern five-day forecast is as accurate as a one-day forecast in 1980.”
“I watched closely for the sun or stars to appear, to correct my chronometer, on the accuracy of which our lives and the success of the journey would depend.”
Recent controversies bode ill for the effort to detect life on other planets by analyzing the gases in their atmospheres.
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About six million years ago, the Mediterranean was sealed off from the Atlantic, and over centuries it ran dry. One megaflood reversed that.
When you turn a map of East Asia upside down, Beijing’s geographic constraints and regional ambitions become much clearer.
The creator of the index called it a public utility for accessing the “vast ocean” of human knowledge.
From hunter-gathers to desk jockeys, we work best when short, intense sessions are followed by lighter fare.
High-frequency oscillations that ripple through our brains may generate memory and conscious experience.