New evidence from rocks, molecules and machine learning is forcing scientists to redraw the opening chapters of Earth’s story, pushing the first stirrings of biology far closer to the planet’s violent ...

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A team of researchers says oxygen isotopes found in rock types contain the oldest geochemical record of the Earth. A collective understanding of five different data sets show that, all the way back to ...