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In this week’s episode of Space Minds meet Yao Song, a Chinese entrepreneur and CEO of Orienspace. Raised in a Communist revolution, Orienspace’s founder now ...

A new study rewrites the story of human evolution, suggesting that intelligent life is not rare but a natural planetary ...

All this happened about 4.5 billion years after Earth formed, with innumerable steps occurring in between that made our ...

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