ScienceDaily -- An international team of researchers, with the participation of IAC astronomers, has discovered that the chemical structure of Earth-like planets can be very different from the bulk composition of Earth.
This may have a dramatic effect on the existence and formation of the biospheres and life on Earth-like planets.
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