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In a groundbreaking scientific achievement, researchers have successfully drilled the deepest-ever core sample from Earth's ...

How Life Began on Earth: Modeling Earth's Ancient Atmosphere Oct. 31, 2024 — This model reveals how vastly different the atmosphere was on ancient Earth, and how life may have first ...

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