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Are there any extraterrestrial rocks (or ice chunks) orbiting the Earth that have been recently discovered?
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If a person were flash frozen at the moment of death, sealed in an airtight, rigid canister, and buried deep under the South Pole (at a constant -50 degrees C), how long would he (it?) likely have before the DNA degrades beyond the point of being clone-able?
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Like the Earth, do moons of other planets also synchronize tidally to effect a light-side, dark-side relationship?
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Where is Artificial Life these days? Are we anywhere close to elementary chemical / protein folding simulations that can simulate an evolving system that could reveal a plausible mechanism for the evolution of biological self-replication?
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We've all seen maps of the brain on which specific sensory regions of the cerebrum map to specific regions of the body. Do our brains have a region that would, in lower mammals, map to the tail? If so, what is the function of that region?
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Physical traits are often explained by their power to propagate a species. Leopard spots hide the predator, etc. But by this argument one may ask, where are the spotted lions?
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