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Image by Getty / Futurism In the nearly 13 years since Tinder launched, the dating app has been everything from a straight alternative to Grindr to a sexual harassment factory to a venue to meet one’s spouse — and, most recently, an AI-riddled graveyard. Nevertheless, there are still flesh-and-blood humans successfully using the app. And according to a fascinating new study …

How did the building blocks of life come together to spawn the first organisms? It’s one of the most longstanding questions in biology — and scientists just got a major clue. In a new study published in the journal Nature, a team of biologists say they’ve demonstrated how RNA molecules and amino acids could combine, by purely random interactions, to …