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- 1From:USA Today (Vol. 149, Issue 2913)Around 2,500,000,000 years ago, our planet experienced what possibly was the greatest change in its history: according to the geological record, molecular oxygen suddenly went from nonexistent to becoming freely...
- 2From:Astronomy (Vol. 49, Issue 1)Four billion years ago, eight burgeoning planets--including a water-rich world under fire--lurked within the debris disk around a young star. The Sun's primordial nebular gas was gone, but interplanetary space remained...
- 3From:Skeptical Inquirer (Vol. 45, Issue 1)Recently, Agnieszka Wolos and colleagues published a study that dramatically complicated the picture of prebiotic chemistry (Science, vol. 369, eaawl955 [2020]), starting with just six fundamental building blocks--but...
- 4From:The American Poetry ReviewAlbert Goldbarth has published more than thirty books; his newest, The Now, is forthcoming in 2020 (University of Pittsburgh Press). He won the National Book Critics Circle award for Saving Lives (2001) and Heaven and...
- 5From:Commentary (Vol. 147, Issue 6)THERE IS a common belief among astrophysicists and other scientists that studying the universe has revealed our own planet as something less than special. The reasoning is as follows: Earth, long assumed to be...
- 6From:The New York Times MagazineOn Nov. 3, 1977, a new scientific revolution was heralded to the world -- but it came cryptically, in slightly confused form. The front page of that day's New York Times carried a headline: ''Scientists Discover a Form...
- 7From:Newsweek (Vol. 169, Issue 15)Byline: Meghan Bartels Long before there were humans, or hominins, or even single-celled creatures, there must have been something that sparked life on Earth and became everything we see around us today. On that...
- 8From:Popular Science (Vol. 289, Issue 5)The rock is deep rusty red, shot through with gray stripes, It rises above shrubby tundra, part of a hummocky terrain that slopes down to the Hudson Bay in northern Quebec, as it has for a very long time--maybe almost...
- 9From:Boulevard (Issue 95-96)
Carlson, Nancy Naomi native land of insouciance cradle of ignorance bulimic for stars patrie de l'insouciance berceau de l'ignorance boulimique d'étoiles --translated from French by Nancy Naomi Carlson... - 10From:USA Today (Vol. 145, Issue 2862)ALTHOUGH the general public disconcertingly is unaware, the simple scientific fact is that scientists do not have even the slightest clue how life could have begun through an unguided, natural process absent the...
- 11From:Science News (Vol. 189, Issue 13)Solar outbursts may have supplied early Earth with the right stuff for life. Based on observations of young sunlike stars, researchers estimate that "super" solar flares bombarded Earth with energetic particles daily...
- 12From:Young Scientists Journal (Vol. 4, Issue 10)Byline: Fiona. Jenkinson As soon as man gained consciousness, it is almost certain we began to wonder where we and everything else came from. For a few thousand years now, this has been a topic for which religion has...
- 13From:Science News (Vol. 133, Issue 10)A frustrating start for life on earth Comets and meteors striking the earth frequently during its early history may have repeatedly exterminated the first living cells from the planet, forcing life to originate over...
- 14From:Science News (Vol. 149, Issue 18)In most scenarios of the origin of life, precursors of biological molecules formed in a rich brew of amino acids. Then, on the beaches of primitive Earth, these raw materials of life somehow linked into longer,...
- 15From:National Geographic (Vol. 210, Issue 5)The father of evolution was a nervous parent. Few things worried Charles Darwin more than the challenge of explaining how nature's most complex structures, such as the eye, came to be. "The eye to this day gives me a...
- 16From:Spectator (Vol. 306, Issue 9362)This January Prometheus paid our era a call. Scientists (it was reported at the end of the month) have 'announced the creation of a synthetic chromosome, knocking down one of the final hurdles to building the world's...
- 17From:Astronomy (Vol. 42, Issue 1)As early as the fifth century b.c., the Greek philosopher Anaxagoras proposed that perhaps life came floating down to Earth from somewhere in the great sky above. More recently, some scientists have proposed so-called...
- 18From:Sky & Telescope (Vol. 106, Issue 6)The symposium's speakers discussed how recent discoveries in cosmology are reenergizing the quest to answer questions about origins and the divine. Science historian Owen Gingerich believes strongly that there is an...
- 19From:Astronomy (Vol. 36, Issue 4)Sitting on Earth amid a sea of complex molecules, we can easily forget these building blocks of the physical world are much harder to come by outside our solar system. Large distances, low densities, and faint signals...
- 20From:The Economist (Vol. 410, Issue 8873)Man and dinosaur living in perfect harmony Debating evolution at the Creation Museum A SCIENTIST and a creationist walked on to a stage. This is not a joke; it happened on February 4th in Kentucky. In one corner:...