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  "id": 16973899,
  "title": "Study: Comets May Have Been Unlikely to Deliver Life’s Ingredients to Early Earth",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/28/study-comets-may-have-been-unlikely-to-deliver-lifes-ingredients-to",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-28T23:18:20.000Z",
  "source": {
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    "url": "https://www.sci.news/biology/comets-life-ingredients-early-earth-15162.html"
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  "summary": "A new study led by the University of Cambridge challenges the long-standing idea that comets helped kick-start life on our home planet, suggesting that the icy bodies were largely unable to deliver the concentrated chemical ingredients needed for prebiotic chemistry. The post Study: Comets May Have Been Unlikely to Deliver Life’s Ingredients to Early Earth appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking…",
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      {
        "outlet": "Science News",
        "title": "Comets probably didn’t deliver life’s building blocks to Earth",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/28/comets-probably-didnt-deliver-lifes-building-blocks-to-earth",
        "published": "2026-10-28T10:00:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Phys.org",
        "title": "Comets probably didn't seed life on Earth after all, new study suggests",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/28/comets-probably-didnt-seed-life-on-earth-after-all-new-study-suggests",
        "published": "2026-10-28T10:00:10.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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