Paleogeography in the age of dinosaurs amplified arctic warming in response to orbital change

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How changing environments can preserve an ancient microbial survival strategy

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A mild aqueous route to life’s chemical building blocks

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What ancient Mars’s rocks reveal about its buried carbonate stores

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Shedding light on how hydrogen cyanide formed on early Earth

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Researchers successfully engineered receptor membrane proteins without using living cells

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The hidden language of life’s early proteins

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A new way to detect life beyond Earth without knowing what life looks like

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Subglacial weathering may have slowed Earth’s escape from snowball Earth

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