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Almost 20 years ago, New Scientist ran a feature called “Imagine Earth without people”, a thought experiment about what would happen to our planet over thousands of years if humanity suddenly ...

A first thought when describing a rock formation likely isn't a mille-feuille, but there are actually certain types composed ...