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Category: Astrobiology

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How Long Will Human Civilization Last?

Posted on December 5, 2014October 24, 2022 by Sciworthy

Human-caused climate change, ocean acidification and species extinctions may eventually threaten the collapse of civilization, according to…

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    Massive tectonic event may have triggered explosion of animal life

    Posted on November 1, 2014October 24, 2022 by Sciworthy

    A new analysis of geologic history may help solve the riddle of the “Cambrian explosion,” the rapid diversification of animal…

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      Geothermal heating increases the habitability of planets orbiting red dwarfs

      Posted on October 7, 2014October 24, 2022 by Jacob Haqq Misra

      Small red stars, known by astronomers as “M-dwarfs”, are the most abundant type of star in the sky and are also the most long-lived of…

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        New but really old genetic ‘operating system’ led to evolution of complex organisms

        Posted on October 7, 2014October 24, 2022 by Sciworthy

        The evolution of worms, insects, vertebrates and other “bilateral” animals — those with distinct left and right sides…

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          Evolutionary arms race via ancient viruses in primate evolution

          Posted on September 29, 2014October 24, 2022 by Sciworthy

          New findings by scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, suggest that an evolutionary arms race between rival elements within…

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            Deciduous trees flourished after dinosaur-killing meteor impact

            Posted on September 17, 2014October 24, 2022 by Sciworthy

            Some 66 million years ago, a 10-km diameter chunk of rock hit the Yukatan peninsula near the site of the small town of Chicxulub with the…

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              Oxygen alone may not be enough to detect life on exoplanets

              Posted on September 13, 2014October 24, 2022 by Sciworthy

              Astronomers searching the atmospheres of alien worlds or exoplants for gases that might be produced by life can’t rely on the…

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