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AI-Driven Chemical Analysis Finds Biosignatures in 3.3-Billion-Year-Old Rocks, Traces of Early Photosynthesis

A PNAS study uses machine learning on pyrolysis–GC–MS data to read degraded molecular echoes with over 90% accuracy.

New Chemical Fossils Strengthen Case That Sponges Were Earth’s Earliest Animals