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Water-filled micropores in hot rock may have acted as the nurseries in which life on Earth began. A team has now shown that temperature gradients in pore systems promote the cyclical replication and emergence of nucleic acids.

The Rift Valley separates the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates, meaning Iceland sits on the North American and European continent

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Callan and two colleagues find a "textbook" unconformity on a field trip in Virginia's westernmost Blue Ridge.