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When a Species Rises From the Dead: The Lazarus Taxon

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Notes on Remote Sensing: How to Spot Aliens at a Distance

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Science Fiction

Five Books About the Dangers of Messing With Science

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short fiction

Five Stories About the Intersection of Science and Ethics

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Science Fiction

Complete Planetary Destruction Is Not as Easy as It Seems

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Science Fiction

Need Smaller Astronauts? Five Dubious SF Solutions to the Problem of Astronaut Mass

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Science Fiction

Three Helpful SF-Related Rules of Thumb, According to Me

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This artist's concept shows a black hole with an accretion disk -- a flat structure of material orbiting the black hole -- and a jet of hot gas, called plasma.
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Five Books

Five Books Whose Physics Broke My Head Open

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Science Fiction

Five SF Novels Inspired by Disproven Scientific Theories

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Artist's conception of light-speed space travel
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Five Ways SF Writers Sidestep the Problem of Relativity

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Science Fiction

Five SF Stories Built Around the Dubious Concept of Psionics

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Artist's conception of a massive meteor impact on the Earth
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Science Fiction

Five Ways to Justify Huge Rocks Smashing Into Earth (in Spite of Science)

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Frank Herbert, Dune

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