As the planet faces the dawn of a sixth mass extinction, scientists are searching for clues about the uncertain road ahead by exploring how an ancient ecosystem collapsed and bounced back from traumatic upheavals. A new study follows the lengthy collapses and revival of South African ecosystems during one of the “big five” mass extinctions, the Permian-Triassic event, revealing unexpected […]
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“Children are messengers to us from a world we once deeply knew.” – Alice Miller
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“We have nothing to fear but fear itself.” – FDR
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“The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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British astronomers have identified a celestial object so large that it challenges scientists’ basic assumptions about the nature of the universe. Huge-LQG is a cluster of 73 quasars, each of which lies at the center of its own galaxy.The structure measures 4 billion light-years across at its greatest dimension; our own Milky Way galaxy, which is 100,000 light-years across, is […]
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“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
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“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. – Dr. Seuss
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“Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.” – Stephen Leacock
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The city of Xi’an, China has built an air purifier that stands 330 feet tall to clean the air of its pollution. Xi’an is home to 8.7 million people, is one of the oldest cities in China, and it has the worst air pollution in the whole country due to its coal burning heating systems. During Autumn and Winter, the […]
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