they write in the paper. "Humans are the only example we know of, and our industrial civilization has lasted (so far) roughly 300 years (since, for example, the beginning of mass production methods).

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But axions were pushed aside as the WIMPs hypothesis gained more steam. Back-of-the-envelope calculations showed that the ...

Experts from the University of Nottingham have created life-size 3D-printed insect models to explore how some species trick ...

The successfully re-enacted voyage suggests that early modern humans likely had a high level of strategic seafaring knowledge ...

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One proponent, for example, suggests that the Earth was actually ejected from a gas giant during its early days, stripped of the outer gas by a strong solar wind.

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