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Once upon a time, scientists actually believed the world was flat, the center of the universe, and composed of four elements. These were ...

Last month, we discussed the Drake Equation and explored the possibility that not only are we not alone in the universe, but that ...

Fiction loves dropping our favorite characters on to single-biome planets, that is a world with only one predominant ecosystem whether it be all ...