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In 1953, the Miller-Urey Experiment showed how organic molecules could have been created by the conditions of the early Earth. Chemists Stanley Miller and Harold Urey tried to replicate the ...

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It’s 1988. A young scientist sets up a simple evolution experiment involving small colonies of bacteria growing in flasks. To be safe, he tries out two variations, each with slightly different ...

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IN A darkened auditorium in September 2008, I sat in the audience awaiting the start of a presentation entitled “The psychology of evil” by social psychologist Philip Zimbardo. Suddenly, the doors at ...

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