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For weeks, raucous demonstrations gripped Buenos Aires, the country’s capital — in sharp contrast to the silence prevailing on the streets Thursday.

"Our experiments indicate that life could emerge from a very small set of molecules, under conditions such as those prevailing on volcanic islands on the early Earth," says Adriana Serrão, lead author of the study.

His prospects for prevailing on that ground are negligible.

Democrats are hailing the results of the election after winning in states such as Virginia and Ohio and red-state Kentucky, and prevailing on left-leaning issues.

“And they are now overwhelmingly prevailing on their matters,” Rico wrote.