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“The Invisible Hand That Killed the Dinosaurs”
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Title: Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs
Author: Lisa Randall
Category: Science & Discovery
What if dark matter—the invisible stuff making up most of the universe—actually triggered the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs? Sam and Sophie sit with that question, because it sounds like science fiction, but Lisa Randall makes a surprisingly rigorous case.
They walk through Randall's hypothesis: a thin disk of…
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