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A radical new theory rewrites the story of how life on Earth began

A radical new theory rewrites the story of how life on Earth began

5 August 2020

It has long been thought that the ingredients for life came together slowly, bit by bit. Now there is evidence it all happened at once in a chemical big bang

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