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More Evidence Found for Quantum Physics in Photosynthesis
Physicists have found the strongest evidence yet of quantum effects fueling photosynthesis. Multiple experiments in recent years have suggested...
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The Magnificence of Spider Silk
Spider silk is one of the most high-performance materials. Each species of spider can make up to 7 very...
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Searching for Goldilocks
At least four times in the last few years, astronomers have announced they have found planets orbiting other stars...
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Life Began With a Planetary Mega-Organism
Once upon a time, 3 billion years ago, there lived a single organism called LUCA. It was enormous: a...
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Lynn Margulis: 1938-2011
Lynn Margulis is justly celebrated for her determined claim that the eukaryotic cell (the more complex cell with a...
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Searching for the Origins of Life … and Our Future
People have been asking questions like “How did we get here?” and “Are we alone?” since the time of...
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What Story Does Earth’s Life Tell About ET?
How easy is it to create life? It happened here at least once. Does that give scientists studying the...
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Ancestor of All Living Things More Sophisticated Than Thought
The mysterious common ancestor of all life on Earth may have been more complex than before thought—a sophisticated organism...
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The Hazy History of Air on Saturn’s Moon Titan
“Titan provides an extraordinary environment to better understand some of the chemical processes that led to the appearance of...
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Ancient Mud Volcanoes Perfect for Early Life
To learn more about life’s origins, scientists investigated some of the oldest remnants of crust on Earth—rocks 3.7 billion...
