So many of life's most pivotal decisions come down to one question: Should you listen to your logic or your emotions? Popular ...

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Synthetic cell SpudCell, the first built from non-living components by University of Minnesota synthetic biologists Kate ...

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Exceptionally preserved fossils from China reveal that bryozoans were already thriving during the Cambrian explosion.

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On November 24, 1859, Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species and transformed our understanding of life on Earth by introducing the scientific theory that populations evolve over the course ...

Sometimes, our preference for certitude, our need to define things with conviction, closes us off from possibility.

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