Could salt crusts be key ingredient for cooking up prebiotic molecules?
Thursday, September 17, 2009 - 09:56
in Earth & Climate
German scientists investigating the complex chemical mixture thought to be present in the early Earth's oceans have found that amino acids can be 'cooked' into many other important chemical building blocks of life when embedded in salt crusts. Results of the laboratory experiments will be presented by Stefan Fox at the European Planetary Science Congress in Potsdam, Germany, on Thursday 17 September...