How Did Life Originate on Earth? Lab-Created Space Dust May Help Answer

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How did life begin on Earth? Scientists still don't have a definitive answer. There is much debate about whether the first organic molecules formed on a young planet, whether they were brought in later by comets and asteroids, or whether they entered the nascent Earth during the earliest stages of the solar system's formation.

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How did nucleic acids, the molecules that carry genetic information and are the source of life, originate on Earth? A research team from Tohoku University and the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) has tackled one of the greatest mysteries surrounding the origin of life. By recreating the environment of early Earth in a laboratory, they were able to see how the materials connected in stages...