Some astrobiologists believe life is rare, while others believe it is common in the Universe. How can we find out which view is correct?
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Theory without experiment is blind, and experiment without theory is lame.
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Try this: It’s about 10 times the number of cups of water in all the oceans of Earth.
Yorkicystis lived during the “Cambrian explosion,” 539 million to 485 million years ago – hundreds of million years before the dinosaurs.
Descartes broke from the European philosophers who preceded him and devised a new way of considering humanity and the world.