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The very first cells obtained their energy from geochemical reactions. LMU researchers have now managed to recreate this ...

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While the spring semester is winding down, the University of Wyoming Harry C. Vaughan Planetarium is amping up its offerings ...

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We may have gotten the evolutionary origins of the echidna backward, as new research suggests its ancestors probably lived in ...