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In the 1980s, paleontologists and other scientists put together an elegant scenario accounting for the enormous mass extinction that took place at the end of the Cretaceous Period of the Mesozoic Era. That scenario entailed the following events ( Read more... )

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Hurricane Irene is headed for the East Coast and while you'd be wise to board up those windows and stock up on supplies, nothing is quite as effective as ( Read more... )

Life is all about energy flow. Energy is, essentially, matter in motion, whether it be the tiny quantum capsules of electromagnetic energy called "photons," a plant stabbing down new roots into the soil in early Spring, a beating heart, a running man, a swarm of bees on the move, a nuclear explosion, a volcanic eruption, a massive earthquake ( Read more... )

There are two main schools of thought about the forms life, especially technologically sophisticated life, would have on various worlds, especially those belonging to different stars. The first is that you'd find many forms similar to one another regardless of what worlds they came from, as long as certain factors such as oxygenated atmospheres ( Read more... )