Tag: early life
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Emulsifiers and Child Health: What Parents Should Know
What are emulsifiers and why do they matter for children? Emulsifiers are food additives used to improve texture, mix ingredients that don’t naturally combine, and extend shelf life. You’ll find them in a range of products popular with families: dairy items like yogurts and puddings, baked goods, ice cream, and some powdered infant or toddler…
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Crumbled Cradle: How a Splitting Supercontinent Might Have Sparked Life on Earth
New Clues from a Fractured Era Scientists are revisiting a dramatic chapter in Earth’s deep past—the break-up of a once-mighty supercontinent and how its disintegration could have set the stage for life as we know it. By linking plate tectonics to climate shifts and ocean chemistry, researchers are exploring how a crumbling landmass might have…
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Could a Crumbling Supercontinent Have Jumpstarted Life on Earth?
New Clues That Earth’s Crumbling Supercontinent Could Have Sparked Life When scientists talk about Earth’s distant past, they often reference dramatic shifts in geography and climate. A growing body of research now suggests that the slow breakup of a supercontinent might have been more than a geological curiosity—it could have helped ignite life as we…
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Crumbling Supercontinent Might Have Sparked Life on Earth
How a Shattering Planet May Have Jump-started Life Long before humans pondered the origins of life, Earth’s own tectonic engine was busy reshaping the planet in dramatic ways. A new line of thought among scientists proposes that the crumbling of a long-lived supercontinent could have set off a cascade of environmental changes that ultimately kickstarted…
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Ancient Parasite Origin: 480-Million-Year-Old Fossil Rewrites Early Life
A New Window into Ancient Parasites A recent fossil find from the Fezouata Shale in Morocco is reshaping our understanding of when parasitism first emerged on Earth. Scientists describe a 480-million-year-old specimen in which a group of parasitic worms appears to have burrowed into the shells of molluscs. This discovery pushes back the origin of…