Scientists have found fossils that show life appearing on Earth much earlier than we thought. Meanwhile, could there be a new fundamental force?
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Sources:
Fossils
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20151019/us-sci–earliest_life-a400435d0d.html
http://www.pnas.org/content/112/47/14518.full.pdf
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/life-on-earth-likely-started-at-least-4-1-billion-years-ago-much-earlier-than-scientists-had-thought
http://www.fossilmuseum.net/Tree_of_Life/Stromatolites.htm
Images
http://lunarscience.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/4-25-12_bombardment.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stromatolite#/media/File:Stromatolites_in_Sharkbay.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stromatolite#/media/File:Stromatolithe_Pal%C3%A9oarch%C3%A9en_-_MNHT.PAL.2009.10.1.jpg
Fundamental Force
http://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.042501
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-08/uoc–upc081516.php
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-08/uoc–npm081716.php
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.07411v2.pdf
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1608.03591v1.pdf
Images
Quanta Magazine https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160607-new-boson-claim-faces-scrutiny/
Lucy Reading-Ikkanda http://www.lucyreading.co.uk/
