Category: Science
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Colossal’s De-Extinction Project: DelVal Professor and Students Give Thoughts
The Anthropocene era signals humans’ significant impact on Earth, that impact being mass extinction. Colossal Biosciences aims to resurrect Wooly Mammoths and other extinct creatures to improve ecosystem health. However, Dr. George doubts the project’s efficacy, citing ecosystem complexities. He questions prioritizing de-extinction over current conservation efforts. The debate raises concerns about the project’s feasibility…
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PHOTOS: Beauty in Nature
James Marinelli Welcome to a world of photography through the lens of James Marinelli.
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Omnilingual
To translate writings, you need a key to the code — and if the last writer of Martian died forty thousand years before the first writer of Earth was born … how could the Martian be translated?
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The Windows of Absolute Night
To most minds mystery is more fascinating than science. But when science itself leads straight up to the borders of mystery and there comes to a dead stop, saying, “At present I can no longer see my way,” the force of the charm is redoubled.
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The Door In The Wall
One confidential evening, not three months ago, Lionel Wallace told me this story of the Door in the Wall. And at the time I thought that so far as he was concerned it was a true story. He told it me with such a direct simplicity of conviction that I could not do otherwise than…