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This video looks at leading scientific ideas about the origins of life, from early chemistry on ancient Earth to ongoing research that helps explain how living systems may have emerged.

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By resurrecting a 3.2-billion-year-old enzyme and studying it inside living microbes, researchers at the University of ...

Nitrogen, upon which all life on Earth depends, may hold the key for explaining how early life on the planet evolved and how it could evolve on other planets.

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