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Michael Irving

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Science/tech journalist at New Atlas (@nwtls), @ScienceAlert, Stack magazine. Simpsons collector @CollectSimpsons. Tweets about science, video games, writing
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Ever Experienced Something You Can't Explain? Detailed Study Investigates How People Deal With The Uncanny Original

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By Michael Irving Verified
| ScienceAlert Verified
Have you ever heard a voice when you were completely alone? Or felt the presence of some unseen being? You're not alone; around 60 percent of Americans believe they've had some kind of unexplainable experience. But was it scary? Inspiring? Perhaps it invoked a new spirituality in you, or made you feel closer to a deceased loved one. Or maybe it just sent you to the doctor for a brain scan.
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'Only One Conclusion': Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice

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By Michael Irving Verified
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10 seriously surprising facts about orgasms, from the experts who study them Getting off, having a happy ending, coming undone – there are endless slang terms for experiencing an orgasm. But what do we really know about the …
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Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose From Non-Living Matter TWICE Original

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By Michael Irving Verified
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The fact that you, or I, or any living creature, is here at all is a series of astonishing strokes of luck stretching back more than 4 billion years. One of the biggest hurdles was the very first one: How did life emerge from a primordial soup of stuff that very much wasn't alive? A radical new study, published in Science Advances, suggests that this unlikely threshold may actually have been crossed not once, but twice.
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