Hydrothermal vents at the sea floor offer clues to the origins of life on earth, and beyond.
Before life on earth, what was there?
To be alive is to ponder that question and, perhaps...
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READ MOREKenneth Kodama knows that rocks retain a faithful record of the magnetic field, a fact that has had a tremendous variety of applications, including the reconstruction of continental positions...
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