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Life on Earth emerged fast. Far quicker than we thought

Life on Earth emerged fast. Far quicker than we thought

Here’s a story you might have read before in a popular science book or seen in a documentary. It’s the one about early Earth as a lifeless, volcanic hellscape. When our planet was newly formed, the story goes, the surface was a barren wasteland of sharp rocks, strewn with lava flows from erupting volcanoes. The air was an unbreathable fume …

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Wylie thought he was fit and healthy. Now he’s fighting for his life at just 39 after doctors dismissed his ‘vague’ symptom

Wylie thought he was fit and healthy. Now he’s fighting for his life at just 39 after doctors dismissed his ‘vague’ symptom

Wylie Dixon was excited to build a future with his beautiful wife – from travelling across Australia to starting the family they had always dreamed of. But everything came to a halt when the ‘fit and healthy’ retail manager received devastating news that he had an aggressive form of appendix cancer. The then 38-year-old had been struggling with months of …

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I’ve been a thought leader on operationalizing AI for over 35 years and I’m concerned. There’s a catastrophe in the making

I’ve been a thought leader on operationalizing AI for over 35 years and I’m concerned. There’s a catastrophe in the making

In a speech last month, President Donald J. Trump outlined three executive orders he signed to promote American dominance of AI technology. He promised, in fact, that as America is the country that started the AI race, “I’m here to declare that America is going to win it!”  To do so, his executive orders would make it easier for companies to …

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Photos capture a fish thought to be extinct for 70 million years

Photos capture a fish thought to be extinct for 70 million years

At dawn in the deep waters off North Maluku, Indonesia, a team of technical divers raised their camera lights and found themselves face to face with a creature once known only from stone. The brown spotted coelacanth, an ancient group of lobe-finned fish (Sarcopterygii) in the class Actinistia, famous for vanishing before the last dinosaur fell, a survivor of a …

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10-Million-Year-Old Fossils in Turkey Challenge What We Thought We Knew About Mammal Evolution

10-Million-Year-Old Fossils in Turkey Challenge What We Thought We Knew About Mammal Evolution

A groundbreaking study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has redefined the evolutionary timeline of mammals and possibly early human ancestors. Thanks to the precise application of argon-argon dating, a team led by Ferhat Kaya from the University of Oulu has pinpointed the ages of fossil-rich volcanic sediments in central Türkiye to between 7 and 10 …

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Instead of a $50,000 solar panel on your roof, how about a $2,000 one small enough to fit on your deck? ‘We thought absolutely, let’s do this right away’

Instead of a ,000 solar panel on your roof, how about a ,000 one small enough to fit on your deck? ‘We thought absolutely, let’s do this right away’

When Terrence Dwyer received a knock on his door and a flyer for a solar panel system small enough to fit on his deck, he was quickly sold. Solar systems that plug into regular wall outlets have been popular in Europe for years and are gaining traction in the U.S. for their affordability and simple installation. “We thought absolutely, let’s …

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Lewis Capaldi Met Justin Bieber at a Party and Totally Thought They Were Pals Until He Texted Him the Next Day: ‘Bieber Aired Me’

Lewis Capaldi Met Justin Bieber at a Party and Totally Thought They Were Pals Until He Texted Him the Next Day: ‘Bieber Aired Me’

Lewis Capaldi has met plenty of famous people over the years and become friendly with a few of them. But in a chat with Capital Breakfast’s Chris Stark on Friday (Aug. 15), the “Someone You Loved” singer revealed that when he met Justin Bieber at a “swanky” Los Angeles party thrown by Kylie Jenner (he thinks) a while back he …

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