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Every living thing on Earth evolved from one common ancestor
The mystery of life’s beginnings has long captivated scientists. Central to that search is LUCA—the last universal common ...
A study discovers that we were wrong about the age of the common ancestor of “all life on Earth.”
The study, led by paleogeneticist Edmund Moody from the University of Bristol, claims that LUCA may have emerged 4.2 billion ...
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'Right now, we are in what has to be a Golden Age of asteroid exploration.' Scientists celebrate NASA's latest space rock flyby
"We're studying the leftover raw materials from the formation of the planets and trying to understand the history that made ...
How was the Earth built?
They’ve concluded that the Earth was built in the same way that you would build a big snowball to make a snowman. The mass that would become our home rolled through planetary debris – rocks floating ...
‘Age of Innocence,’ ‘Unaccustomed Earth’ Series Adaptations Set at Netflix
Netflixis greenlighting series version of "The Age of Innocence" by Edith Wharton and "Unaccustomed Earth" by Jhumpa Lahiri ...
Melting ice age glaciers triggered surprising changes deep within Earth
As the last Ice Age came to an end nearly 10,000 years ago, something unexpected happened deep beneath Earth’s surface. Large ...