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Machine Learning Used To Classify Fossils Of Extinct Pollen – Offworld Astrobiology Applications?

by Keith Cowing

Editor’s note: when we begin to study inhabited worlds we are going to have to take a stab at something that has taken centuries on Earth: systematic classification of life […]

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Discovery Of Sunscreen-like Chemicals In Fossil Plants Reveals UV Radiation Played A Part In Mass Extinction Events

by Keith Cowing

New research has uncovered that pollen preserved in 250 million year old rocks contain compounds that function like sunscreen, these are produced by plants to protect them from harmful ultraviolet […]

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