Author: Martin J. Clemens
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Can we measure the probability that life in the cosmos develops only so far before fizzling out? Is there a way to quantify the evolutionary potential of biological life and its reach throughout the universe? Theoretical supposition can be fun. …
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Glass is, in the modern world, nearly ubiquitous. It’s everywhere. Glass has been one of the most useful inventions ever made, though invention isn’t really the right word, it was more of a discovery. The art of making glass is…
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When you think of the renowned, yet often overlooked, genius of early computing, Alan Turing, I’m betting you imagine code breaking machines, complex mathematical formulas and maybe Artificial Intelligence. Few of you, I think, would immediately think of biology. Even…
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If you believe Hollywood, or its contemporary bodies around the world, radiation poisoning holds the potential to create anything from giant city-destroying lizards to a new race of humans, replete with exotic mutations making them capable of miraculous feats in…
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“I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant: I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who…
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There’s a lot we don’t understand about this world of ours. And by ‘world’ I mean the cosmos, the universe…this reality we inhabit. There is stuff that happens that just doesn’t make any sense. Sometimes it’s easy to pass it…
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If you give a lump of clay to a child, the first shape they’ll sculpt is likely to be a sphere, or a near-spherical ball. It’s a shape nature seems to love, and there are complicated reasons for that –…
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When you think of the term ‘witch trials’, what comes to mind? Elizabethan Puritans? The Catholic Malleus Maleficarum – more famously known as The Witches Hammer? Salem, Massachusetts? Or is it something more intangible, like unjust imprisonment, or torture, or…
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Alternate history buffs are about to be whipped into a frenzy! OK, maybe not, but they will find this interesting. An ancient “super-megalithic” site has been found in the Siberian Mountains. Found recently in Gornaya Shoria (Mount Shoria) in southern…
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“And now, I said, let me show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened: –Behold! Human beings living in an underground den, which has a mouth open towards the light and reaching all along the den; here they have…
