A new technology has shed further light on the age-old question: what are the origins of life on Earth?
organic chemistry
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How Urea May Have Been The Gateway To Life
Researchers from ETH Zurich and the University of Geneva have developed a new method that allows them to observe chemical reactions taking place in liquids at extremely high temporal resolution.
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Tryptophan, An Amino Acid Essential For Life, Has Been Found In Interstellar Space
Tryptophan is one of the 20 amino acids considered essential for the formation of proteins, which are key macromolecules for the development of life on Earth. This amino acid has […]
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Origin of Biological Homochirality by Crystallization of an RNA Precursor on a Magnetic Surface
Homochirality is a signature of life on Earth yet its origins remain an unsolved puzzle. Achieving homochirality is essential for a high-yielding prebiotic network capable of producing functional polymers like […]
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Astrochemical Models Of Interstellar Ices: History Matters
Ice is ubiquitous in the interstellar medium. We model the formation of the main constituents of interstellar ices, including H2O, CO2 , CO, and CH3 OH.
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Unlocking Early Earth Chemistry: Salt-induced Changes In Polyester Microdroplet Structure
Billions of years ago, Earth was an extremely hostile planet with active volcanoes, a harsh atmosphere, and certainly no life! This prebiotic Earth, however, was filled with a wide array […]
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A Lost World Of Our Early Ancestors Discovered In Billion-year-old Rocks
The newly discovered record of so-called protosteroids was shown to be surprisingly abundant throughout Earth´s Middle Ages.
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Webb Detects The Universe’s Most Distant Complex Organic Molecules
Researchers have detected complex organic molecules in a galaxy more than 12 billion light-years away from Earth – the most distant galaxy in which these molecules are now known to […]
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Prebiosignature Molecules Can Be Detected In Temperate Exoplanet Atmospheres With JWST
The search for biosignatures on exoplanets connects the fields of biology and biochemistry to astronomical observation, with the hope that we might detect evidence of active biological processes on worlds […]
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Tricorder Tech: Open-channel Microdroplets Array Toward Multimode And Multifunctional Biosensing
Editor’s note: you’re on a field trip to a remote analog location on Earth – or on another world. Your tricorder needs to do as much as it possibly can […]