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As life has evolved, its complexity has increased exponentially, just like Moore’s law. Now geneticists have extrapolated this trend backwards and found that by this measure, life is...
One of the more curious processes that occur beneath the Antarctic sea ice in winter is the formation of brinicles. These are hollow tubes of ice that project down from the ice pack into...
There was a time on Earth, about 635 million years ago, when almost the entire planet was covered in ice. At least, this is the idea underlying the Snowball Earth Hypothesis, which...