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All Life on Earth Comes From One Single Ancestor. And It's So Much Older Than We Thought.
Life on Earth had to begin somewhere, and scientists think that “somewhere” is LUCA—or the Last Universal Common Ancestor.
Scientists redid an experiment that showed how life on Earth could have started. They found a new possibility
New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the ...
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How did the first cells form on Earth? Scientists think they finally figured it out
About 4 billion years ago, Earth began to show signs of the conditions that allowed the first cells to take hold and populate ...
Tiny Sparks in Water May Have Triggered Life on Earth, a New Study Suggests
While previous studies say volcanic or atmospheric lightning may have triggered chemical reactions that created organic ...
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Did jolts of ‘microlightning’ in primordial mist kick-start Earth’s earliest life? Scientists offer clues
“It’s recognized that an energetic catalyst was almost certainly required to facilitate some of the reactions on early Earth that led to the origin of life,” said astrobiologist and ...
Meteor strike may have sparked an explosion of life in the early Earth
A devastating meteorite strike over three billion years ago may have been just what early life needed to thrive. While it’s ...
Earth’s oceans weren’t always blue, scientists say
But while lifeless during that time, the planet was already covered by vast oceans dotted with hydrothermal vent systems that ...
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Scientists redid an experiment that showed how life on Earth could have started. They found a new possibility
“It’s recognized that an energetic catalyst was almost certainly required to facilitate some of the reactions on early Earth that led to the origin of life,” said astrobiologist and ...
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Scientists redid an experiment that showed how life on Earth could have started. They found a new possibility
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