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Massachusetts Institute of Technology: When Earth iced over, early life may have sheltered in meltwater ponds
June 19, 2025
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, June 19 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news:

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When Earth iced over, early life may have sheltered in meltwater ponds

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When the Earth froze over, where did life shelter? MIT scientists say one refuge may have been pools of melted ice that dotted the planet's icy surface.

In a study appearing today in Nature Communications, the researchers report that 635 millio . . .

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