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bCentre for Population Health Research, Turku University Hospital and University of Turku, Turku, Finland cDepartment of Radiology, Turku University Hospital and University of Turku, Turku, Finland ...
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The big-idea explorers at Aperture dive into the Fermi Paradox to investigate why we haven't found any evidence of alien life ...
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A siphonophore—a colonial marine invertebrate related to the venomous stinging Portuguese Man-o-war—is scanned using Deep ...
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This new group, which is led by Harvard professor Avi Loeb, aims to advise the Trump administration and the U.S. intelligence ...
Avi Loeb, a Harvard astronomer who has made headlines with his theories about alien encounters, will lead a White House ...