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Did volcanic ‘glasses’ help spark early life?

Some content has been removed for formatting reasons. Please view the original article for the best reading experience. When life emerged, it did so quickly. Fossils suggest microbes were present 3.7 billion years ago, just a few hundred million years after the 4.5-billion-year-old planet had cooled enough to support biochemistry, and many researchers think the hereditary material for...

New director of NASA’s storied Jet Propulsion Lab takes on ballooning mission costs

Some content has been removed for formatting reasons. Please view the original article for the best reading experience. On 16 May, planetary scientist Laurie Leshin became director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), one of the world’s leading labs for robotic space science. Coming off the successful landing of the Perseverance rover on Mars, JPL is readying several more...

Researchers criticize Senate plan to steer more NSF funding to ‘have not’ states

Some content has been removed for formatting reasons. Please view the original article for the best reading experience. Top research universities in just a handful of U.S. states conduct the majority of research funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), while institutions in half the country receive only crumbs. The U.S. Senate wants NSF to correct that longstanding...