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The Mkhonjwa geotrail

Lava-munching microbes were the earliest life on land

11 October 2021

About 3.2 billion years ago, microbes began to colonise land for the first time, and geological evidence suggests they fed on energy-rich chemicals in volcanic lava
New Horizons spacecraft

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has found two odd pairs of asteroids

7 October 2021

The New Horizons spacecraft has found two pairs of unusually close asteroids in a region of the solar system called the Kuiper belt

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