The world record for the 100 meter dash is 9.58 seconds. A record set by Usain Bolt after beating his own preceding record at the previous Olympic Games. With such impressive records already, it has become onerous to imagine how Olympic records can continue to get broken, yet every round of Olympic events brings a […]
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Traveling back in time 500 years, one would witness the fall of the Aztec empire and experience the Age of Discovery: events that seem like an eternity ago. That is to say, 500 years is a long time. What will the world look like 500 years in the future? Maybe we will have colonies on
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Life on Earth has been evolving, adapting, and refining itself for over three billion years, leading to the intricate organisms which roam the world today. After such a long time, one would think that cells would have developed ways to ensure high-fidelity during gene replication. After all, cells must replicate their genome to pass down
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