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The Astronomer Who’s About to See the Skies of Other Earths
We know next to nothing about the other 6 billion or so Earth-like planets in the galaxy. With the imminent launch of the largest, most [...]
Bringing Woolly Mammoths Back from Extinction Might Not be Such a Bad Idea — Ethicists Explain
A US startup has announced plans to bring woolly mammoths, or animals like them, back from extinction and into the frosty landscape of the Siberian tundra. The [...]
The Universe Has Already Made Almost All the Stars It Will Ever Make
In cosmology, Olbers’ paradox asks how a universe loaded with stars can be mostly dark. The answer is that we inhabit a universe that [...]