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Six of nine planetary boundaries now exceeded

September 13, 2023 – A new study updates the planetary boundary framework and shows human activities are increasingly impacting the planet and, thereby, increasing the risk of triggering dramatic changes in overall Earth conditions. For over 3 billion years, the interaction between life (represented by the planetary boundary, Biosphere Integrity) and climate have controlled the […]

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An epic walk: 15 million years needed for dinosaurs to get from South America to Greenland

March 9, 2021 – For the first time, two researchers—one from the University of Copenhagen and the other from Columbia University—have accurately dated the arrival of the first herbivorous dinosaurs in East Greenland. Their results demonstrate that it took the dinosaurs 15 million years to migrate from the southern hemisphere, as a consequence of being […]

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The Milky Way may be swarming with planets with oceans and continents like here on Earth

February 27, 2021 – According to a new study from the University of Copenhagen, Earth, Venus and Mars were created from small dust particles containing ice and carbon. The discovery opens up the possibility that the Milky Way may be filled with aquatic planets. Astronomers have long been looking into the vast universe in hopes […]

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The D-Factor: Psychologists define ‘the dark core of personality

September 28, 2018 – Egoism, Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy, sadism, spitefulness, and others are among the traits that stand for the malevolent dark sides of human personality. As results from a recently published German-Danish research project show, these traits share a common ‘dark core’. So, if you have one of these tendencies, you are also likely […]

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Textbook story of how humans populated America is ‘biologically unviable,’ study finds

Aug. 11, 2016 – The established theory about the route by which Ice Age peoples first reached the present-day United States has been challenged by an unprecedented study which concludes that their supposed entry route was “biologically unviable”. The first people to reach the Americas crossed via an ancient land bridge between Siberia and Alaska […]

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