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The piano-black plastic material on the console and around door switches might actually be haunted; fingerprints appear mysteriously overnight.

The system uses machine learning to analyze millions of immune-cell receptors—the molecular fingerprints left as the body responds to threats—and detect patterns linked to autoimmune activity.

"They are fingerprints of Earth's earliest history. If we can understand why they exist, we can understand how our planet formed and why it became habitable."

By applying machine learning, the team trained computer models to recognize faint molecular fingerprints left by living organisms long after the original biomolecules were destroyed.

“The risks are that we start to feel like a rental house and don’t have our fingerprints on something that we stand by that goes to New York,” Stone said.