Joanna Thompson

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    Sharks Show How Animals Scale Like Geometric Objects

    Despite their wild variety of sizes, niches, and shapes, sharks scale geometrically, pointing to possible fundamental constraints on evolution

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    Life Helps Make Almost Half of All Minerals on Earth

    A new origins-based system for classifying minerals reveals the huge geochemical imprint that life has left on Earth. It could help us identify other worlds with life too.