There’s a rare material called Darwin Glass that Tasmanian Aboriginals have prized for centuries. And while it took Western researchers a while to figure out what it was and where it came from, once they got their heads around it, they were pretty stoked too. Because these glittery little rocks could be the key to a theory called panspermia, and tell us all about how life might get transported between planets.
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