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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Tiny fireball that crashed into Georgia home is 4.56bn-year-old meteorite, say experts

A meteorite that crashed in Atlanta was found to be 4.56 billion years old, predating Earth.
fromenglish.elpais.com
2 weeks ago

Daniel Gomez, botanist: When we give flowers, we are giving sexual organs'

We know much more about plants than nature in general, but like all other areas, there are so many more unknowns than knowns.
Agriculture
Philosophy
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

Pulitzer Prize winner Jason Roberts: One of the great challenges of today's world is the appeal of simplism'

True science intertwines advancements with life-and-death consequences, highlighting a historical race for knowledge amidst perilous explorations and colonial undertones.
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fromFortune
1 month ago
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You can buy a 54-pound Martian rock for upwards of $2 million in an auction also featuring a juvenile dinosaur that's 11 feet long

fromFortune
1 month ago
Science

You can buy a 54-pound Martian rock for upwards of $2 million in an auction also featuring a juvenile dinosaur that's 11 feet long

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fromFuturism
1 month ago

A Dinosaur Appears to Have Died on the Exact Spot They Later Built a Dinosaur Museum, Burying Its Fossil Underneath It

A 67.5-million-year-old dinosaur fossil was discovered beneath a museum's parking lot in Denver during geothermal drilling.
fromColossal
1 month ago

The 16th-Century Artist Who Created the First Compendium of Insect Drawings

Joris Hoefnagel created The Four Elements, a multi-volume collection with over 300 watercolor renderings showcasing insects and other natural specimens with remarkable detail and accuracy.
Artificial intelligence
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fromGothamist
1 month ago

See a rare dinosaur or a chunk of Mars during Sotheby's 'Geek Week'

The sale features a six-foot-tall Ceratosaurus fossil, one of only four known specimens, expected to sell for between 4 and 6 million dollars.
NYC real estate
Environment
fromianVisits
4 months ago

Natural History Museum film will compress 4-billion-years of earth's history into one hour

Sir David Attenborough's new film compresses 4 billion years of Earth's history into a one-hour experience at the Natural History Museum.
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