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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 week ago

AI Uncovers Oldest-Ever Molecular Evidence of Photosynthesis

While much of the history of life on Earth is written, the opening chapters are murky at best. On our ever-changing world, the older a rock is, the more it has changed, obscuring or even erasing evidence of ancient life. Beyond a hazy boundary of circa two billion years, in fact, this interference is so total that no pristine, unaltered Earth rocks are known to exist, making any potential sign of biology as clear as mud. At least until now.
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fromMail Online
1 week ago

Unravelling mystery of Earth's earliest life - dating back 3.3bn years

Chemical signatures of life were detected in 3.3-billion-year-old rocks using pyrolysis-GC-MS and machine learning, extending chemical evidence by about 1.6 billion years.
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fromIndependent
4 weeks ago

Artist Francis O'Toole: 'I spent a long time in St James's Hospital watching my foot, and lower leg, slowly rot and turn black. I eventually ended up with a below-knee amputation'

Francis O'Toole grew up in Fatima Mansions, Ballymun, Jobstown, Tallaght, and Crumlin with minimal art education, roaming streets, fields, back lanes, and scrap yards.
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fromwww.npr.org
4 weeks ago

Tupac's life was 'yin and yang,' writes author of 'Only God Can Judge Me'

Tupac Shakur evolved from an awkward teenager into a magnetic, contradictory artist whose early life shaped his music and tragic death.
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