Planet 9 Might Be Lurking in the Darkness
Evidence is mounting for a ninth planet hiding in the outer solar system. Babylonian priests first documented the 5 planets
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Macrogenetics: A New Era of Biology With Big Data
Thanks to staggeringly large, high-resolution data sets, biologists can understand genetic diversity patterns across scales never before possible.
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Are We Approaching a Malthusian Catastrophe? Maybe, It’s Complicated
Like bacteria in a Petri dish, humans might be on the road to a population collapse due to dwindling resources, overpopulation, and an increasingly contaminated environment.
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Rocketing Towards the Dreaded Kessler Syndrome
Earth has a space junk problem. The amount of debris from the collisions of orbiting manmade objects is growing, bringing us closer to the Kessler Syndrome, in which launching new spacecraft and satellites is impossible.
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There Are No Green Stars
When astrophysicists peer into the universe, they see a rainbow spectrum of stars, from cooler red ones on one side to hotter blue ones on the other. In the center of the spectrum, they should see green stars, but they don’t due to the nature of stars and the limitations of the human eye.
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Pseudoscience Is the Real Pandemic
Some people will believe anything because they can’t tell the difference between real science and pseudoscience. Not only have these people held back humanity, they have gotten people killed. Enough already.
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