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1,028 capsules, each one classified by the strength of its evidence.

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oceanography
Fact

Plankton

Organisms that drift in water rather than swimming against currents. They include the base of the marine food web and produce a large share of the…

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architecture
Fact

Vernacular Architecture

Building made without architects, using local materials and inherited methods, adapted to local climate and way of life. It accounts for the…

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earth science
Fact

The Atmosphere

The layer of gas held around the Earth by gravity. It supplies the oxygen and carbon dioxide life requires, moderates temperature, blocks harmful…

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oceanography
Fact

Coral Reefs

Structures built by colonial animals from calcium carbonate, occupying a tiny fraction of the ocean floor and supporting a very large share of its…

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oceanography
Fact

Ocean Currents

Persistent flows of seawater, driven at the surface by wind and at depth by differences in density. They redistribute an enormous quantity of heat…

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earth science
Fact

The Water Cycle

The continuous movement of water between ocean, atmosphere, land and living things. The quantity is fixed; what changes is where it is and in what…

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archaeology
Fact

Dendrochronology

Dating events and objects by counting and matching the annual growth rings of trees. It is the most precise dating method available for the last…

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geology
Fact

Glaciers

Masses of ice large enough to move under their own weight. They hold most of the world's fresh water, they carved much of the landscape of the…

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earth science
Theory

Milankovitch Cycles

The proposal that ice ages are paced by slow, predictable variations in Earth's orbit and axial orientation, which redistribute sunlight across…

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anthropology
Hypothesis

The Savanna Hypothesis

The proposal that human ancestors left the forest for open grassland, and that walking upright, losing body hair and much else followed from that…

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earth science
Hypothesis

The Faint Young Sun Paradox

The Sun was about thirty percent dimmer when the Earth was young, which should have left the planet frozen solid. The geological record shows liquid…

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geology
Hypothesis

The Toba Catastrophe Hypothesis

The proposal that a supervolcanic eruption in Sumatra about 74,000 years ago caused a volcanic winter that nearly exterminated the human species,…

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geology
Hypothesis

The Silurian Hypothesis

If an industrial civilisation had existed on Earth millions of years before our own, would we be able to tell? Gavin Schmidt and Adam Frank asked the…

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geology
Hypothesis

The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis

The proposal that a comet or asteroid struck or exploded over North America about 12,800 years ago, triggering an abrupt return to glacial…

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oceanography
Proven

Ocean Acidification

The ocean absorbs roughly a quarter of the carbon dioxide released by human activity, and dissolved carbon dioxide makes seawater more acidic. The…

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oceanography
Proven

Thermohaline Circulation

A global system of deep ocean currents driven by differences in water density, which itself depends on temperature and salinity. It moves heat around…

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earth science
Proven· Replicated

Climate Change

Climate change refers to the long term warming of the Earth and the shifts in weather patterns that come with it. That the planet is warming, and…

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biology
Fact· Empirical

Polar Bear

The polar bear, Ursus maritimus, is the largest living land carnivore and the only bear classified as a marine mammal. It is a very recent species…

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geography
Fact· Empirical

Amazon Rainforest

The Amazon Rainforest is the largest tropical rainforest on Earth, a vast sea of green covering some 5.5 million square kilometres across nine South…

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geography
Fact· Empirical

The Sahara

The Sahara is the largest hot desert on Earth, a sweep of sand, gravel, and bare rock stretching across northern Africa from the Atlantic Ocean to…

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