New theory ups the odds that intelligent aliens exist
“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...
Was the emergence of intelligent life on Earth just a fluke? Some scientists think not
Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...
Evolving intelligent life took billions of years − but it may not have been as unlikely as many scientists predicted
Humans evolved late in Earth history. While this timing inspired the conclusion that humanlike life is a cosmic improbability ...
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Legends of 'Greatest Cave Explorer Ever Known' live on a century later at Mammoth Cave
The death of Floyd Collins one century ago is being remembered as a catalyst for the formation of Mammoth Cave National Park, ...
Patience, chance, and ‘rat-hole miners’: how Arnold Dix pulled off Indian tunnel rescue
The name Arnold Dix will mean nothing to most people, given I have spent the past few decades of my professional life ...
Does planetary evolution favor human-like life? Study ups odds we're not alone
Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to ...
Valentine’s Day 1946: The first general-purpose electronic computer blossoms
It’s fitting, then, that the first general-purpose electronic computer, ENIAC, or Electronic Numerical Integrator and ...
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Surprising fossils suggest early animals survived outside of water
A new look at fossils from the Cambrian Period around 500 million years ago has revealed that some of the earliest animals spent time on mudflats that were sometimes exposed to the air – a find that c ...
Rewriting History: New Discovery Reveals Hominins Left Africa 200,000 Years Earlier Than We Thought
New research indicates that hominins migrated into Eurasia approximately 200,000 years earlier than previously believed, ...