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Gaining insight could help understand the timing and process of life's emergence. A research team led by a Rutgers-New ...

Climate scientists present a realistic supercomputer simulation that resolves the complex interactions between fire, vegetation, smoke and the atmosphere. The authors find that increasing greenhouse ...

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