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New research demonstrates how the first proteins could've formed without the help of biological processes.

Scientists Say They May Have Just Figured Out the Origin of Life

By Frank Landymore

According to a May study, ancient rock samples show that the widely-accepted theory explaining Earth's Avalon explosion might be all wrong.

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Scientists Say Textbooks Are Wrong About How Life Exploded on Earth

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers discovered that a meteorite contained water just like Earth's, bolstering the theory that our planet got water from other meteorites like it.

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Evidence Grows That Soggy Meteorites Gave Earth Its Oceans

By Frank Landymore

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Scientists Find New Evidence That Life Could Have Begun In Space

By Patrick Caughill

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We May Finally Understand How Alien Life Could Survive on Saturn’s Moon

By Patrick Caughill

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Scientists Have Uncovered New Evidence of the Origins of Life on Earth

Life May Have Emerged on Earth Earlier Than We Previously Thought

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Life May Have Emerged on Earth Earlier Than We Previously Thought

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New Research May Explain the Origin of Complex Life on Earth

A New Model Could Clue Us Into How Life Began on Earth

A New Model Could Clue Us Into How Life Began on Earth

By Patrick Caughill

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Scientists Claim They Have “Solved the Mystery of How the First Animals Appeared on Earth”

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New Theory for Life Suggests It Was Not an Accident of Biology. It Was Physics.

New Study Shows Half the Atoms in Our Bodies Came From Beyond the Milky Way

New Study Shows Half the Atoms in Our Bodies Came From Beyond the Milky Way

New Fossil Evidence Suggests Life May Have Originated on Land and Not in the Oceans

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New Fossil Evidence Suggests Life May Have Originated on Land and Not in the Oceans

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Earth May Have Hosted Complex Life Much Earlier Than We Thought

Humans Can Now “Print” Genetic Code and Engineer Life

Humans Can Now “Print” Genetic Code and Engineer Life

By Benjamin Stecher

Scientists May Have Discovered What Allowed Life to Evolve

Scientists May Have Discovered What Allowed Life to Evolve