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The question of how life emerged from nonliving matter on Earth has puzzled scientists for centuries. A groundbreaking study ...
The question of how life appeared on Earth has intrigued generations. Some researchers are now putting forward an unexpected ...
Ancient crystals reveal that Earth began recycling its crust and forming continents billions of years earlier than scientists ...
Late-stage planetary collisions reshaped Earth and its neighboring planets, delivering water, altering their atmospheres, and ...
More than four billion years ago, Earth was a very different place. Pools of water froze and thawed in cycles, minerals ...
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Researchers have helped overturn the popular theory that water on Earth originated from asteroids bombarding its surface; Scientists have analyzed a meteorite analogous to the early Earth to ...
Polyester microdroplets, possible precursors to life, were formed from alpha-hydroxy acids (αHAs) in early Earth-like conditions even at low reaction volume, low reactant concentrations, and/or high ...