New data mined from historic 'primordial soup' study
Friday, March 25, 2011 - 19:30
in Physics & Chemistry
Stanley Miller's famous 1953 experiment attempted to recreate the organic molecules of a young Earth. He discovered more than he realized, researchers say.A historic 1953 experiment in which a chemist created a "primordial soup" of organic molecules — showing that the chemical building blocks of life could have originated on a hot, gassy Earth — was even more remarkable than scientists back then realized.