As if that were not enough to think about these days, now there is talk of an asteroid, which will probably go directly towards Earth! Well, there’s an asteroid and it’s going in our general direction, maybe it’s not good with us – but that does not stop some from …
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While bacteria are often associated with icky germs, they are actually so much more than that. They help us deepen things, feed trees nitrogen, play an enormous role in cycling the earth’s nutrients, and survive extreme extremes. Recently, we discovered some of these incredibly tough and thin packages of life …
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In 1604, a white dwarf star went supernova. This is very normal behavior for a white dwarf star; but this one, at a distance of just 20,000 light-years from Earth, was visible to the naked eye, and documented by astronomers around the world, including the German astronomer Johannes Kepler. Kepler’s …
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There are many reasons why life on earth can exist. We are at the right distance from the sun, our planet has an abundance of liquid water (but not too much to cover all the land), and our atmosphere is beautiful and thick, protecting us from radiation and dangers in …
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Life tried, but it did not work. As the Late Devonian period approached, more and more living things died out, culminating in one of the greatest events of mass extinction our planet has ever witnessed, some 359 million years ago. The culprit responsible for so many deaths may not have …
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