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The question of how life could have emerged is one of the most long-standing mysteries in science. In a new study, the laboratory of LMU Professor Dieter Braun has uncovered an unexpected form of ...

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Life’s ultimate origin will never be known, but researchers are probing the possibilities—for Earth and elsewhere.

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