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House Speaker Mike Johnson and GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia went back and forth during a private call with House Republicans on Tuesday, according to two sources on the call, as tensions rise during the government shutdown. Greene, who has been publicly critical of Johnson’s decision to keep the House out of session, took her criticism directly to …

Scientists have recreated primitive Earth conditions in the lab to uncover how life’s molecular precursors may have formed.The experiment mimics hydrothermal vents deep in the ocean, believed to have existed some 4 billion years ago.It reveals how natural gradients, rather than enzymes, could drive the first chemical reactions of life.The findings support a compelling theory about the origins of protometabolism—without …