Word: extinctionism
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"The cosmic rays of a nearby supernova may have caused the extinction of the dinosaurs," he says. But, he adds, there are currently no stars close enough to place the planet in danger.
When Soloveitchik arrived on the American scene, the Orthodox Jews were isolated from mainstream society and seemed doomed to extinction in the U.S. Soloveitchik helped foster the growth of the movement by insisting that a Jew could remain both an observer of tradition and a full participant in Western culture...
Now two scientists with the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh have rooted beneath the sediment of the Wind River valley to unearth a spectacular cache of fossils from the Eocene epoch, that critical time when many progenitors of modern mammals first appeared. Representing some 65 species and including...
The first step in linking the theory with astonomy came when two scientists from the Goddard Institute of Space Studies in New York connected the 26 million-year extinction cycle with the 26 million-year intervals between the sun's plunges through the dusty central plane of the Milky Way...
But as the sun spins inward it also bobs up and down through an imaginary plane that intersects the galaxy. The complete up-and-down trip through the debris-filled galaxy takes about 67 million years, and the sun slips through the most crowded region every 33 million years. During...