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Osmotic Energy Conversion Discovered in Hydrothermal Vents Provides Clues to Life’s Beginnings

by Keith Cowing

Researchers experimentally demonstrated that hydrothermal vent precipitates, located deep in the ocean, contains aligned nanopores that enable selective ion transport, thus facilitating osmotic energy conversion from ion gradients. A key […]

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Nanostructures In The Deep Ocean Floor Hint At Life’s Origin

by Keith Cowing

Researchers led by Ryuhei Nakamura at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) in Japan and The Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) of Tokyo Institute of Technology have discovered inorganic […]

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