hypothesis
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The Younger Dryas hypothesis proposes that around 12,800 years ago, fragments of a comet exploded above Earth, setting off a sudden global cooling episode known as the Younger Dryas.
From Science Daily
After ten years of collecting and interpreting data, the researchers found no evidence supporting the sterile neutrino hypothesis.
From Science Daily
She added that verifying the hypothesis would require large epidemiological studies and animal research, yet this work is made more difficult by the lack of reliable animal models for long COVID.
From Science Daily
It is the summation of the ethnographic fieldwork, bold hypotheses and sweeping synthesis unique to this scholar of rural resistance.
“This concept of customer tooling is an overblown hypothesis, which, frankly, I don’t think will happen,” Tan said.
From Barron's
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