What 50-year-old experiment reveals about life

Monday, March 21, 2011 - 17:00 in Physics & Chemistry

An old experiment, rediscovered after more than 50 years, may demonstrate how volcanoes – and possibly chemical reactions far from primitive Earth in outer space – played a role in creating the first amino acids, the building blocks of life.

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