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A new study suggests lunar soil contains elements that solar wind transported to the moon from Earth’s atmosphere, solving a ...

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New method reveals chemical signs of early microbial life in ancient Earth rocks, showing photosynthesis evolved much earlier ...

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New experiments suggest RNA, life’s essential molecule, could have formed naturally on early Earth and even arrived from ...

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Researchers find that Earth’s orbital rhythms influenced sediment and organic preservation in Jurassic shale deposits.