A team of researchers from the University of Tokyo in Japan, found out that hydrothermal vents on the bottom of the ocean can generate electrical currents, and hypothesized that this could have led to creating the cradle of early life on Earth.The team of researchers led by Ryuhei Nakamura says these electrical curre... |
30 October 2010
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One of the most enduring theories in science is the one stating that life emerged from a primordial soup, a mix of chemicals that promoted over eons the creation of organic molecules, amino-acids, and eventually proteins. But some researchers are arguing at this point that it's time for this theory to be discard... |
9 February 2010
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Since it was shown in chemical experiments that the “primordial soup” could have led to the formation of complex proteins and nucleic acid strands from amino-acids over time, experts have been trying to model this in the laboratory, with various degrees of success. Now, German researchers at the Universit... |
17 September 2009
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According to a new scientific study, the layered, rock-like structures called stromatolites that can be found in shallow waters, were created by microbial colonies more than 3.45 billion years ago. The investigation revealed that the dark bands of organic layers that could be found in the rocky structures were, in fa... |
31 July 2009
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While it is commonly accepted that life sparked from a pre-biotic state of chemical compounds that somehow mixed up in an organic form, what exactly caused this whole complex process to occur is still subject to speculation. Water and electricity (from thunders) are the two most circulated factors that appear to have... |
3 November 2008
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It is believed that the "primordial soup" is the place where natural selection began, even before there even was such a thing as life. This means that the prebiotic molecule complex may have increased the possibility for life to emerge. The Krebs cycle refers to the way almost all organisms on the planet obtain... |
16 September 2008
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While looking for evidence of life on other bodies in the solar system, researchers often evaluate the degree of habitability relying on the presence of water, sunlight, oxygen and so on. However, in the last decades, we came to learn that none of these three basic ingredients is absolutely required in order to susta... |
21 April 2008
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