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Here's a question that sounds like science fiction but is being asked in deadly earnest by serious philosophers. Does ...

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An oceanic expedition has turned up 31 new species from a vast, dimly lit habitat between the sunlit surface and the deep ocean.

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We see these nasty little bloaters in in episode 1 burrowing into a dead rat in the Maginot's onboard laboratory. It turns out to be a fairly gruesome foreshadowing of what they're capable of later in ...