#prebioticchemistry — Public Fediverse posts
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Continent formation may have set the stage for life on Earth
Long before forests, fish, or even single cells, Earth may have needed something as unglamorous as growing continents…
#NewsBeep #News #Science #AU #Australia #boron #continentalcrust #EarlyEarth #Geology #GreenGoodNews #Habitability #Mars #NewDiscoveries #originoflife #prebioticchemistry #research #RNA #tourmaline
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Continent formation may have set the stage for life on Earth
Long before forests, fish, or even single cells, Earth may have needed something as unglamorous as growing continents…
#NewsBeep #News #Science #AU #Australia #boron #continentalcrust #EarlyEarth #Geology #GreenGoodNews #Habitability #Mars #NewDiscoveries #originoflife #prebioticchemistry #research #RNA #tourmaline
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Showing The Math For Earth’s First — And Sudden — Spark Of Life
Life Emerges On Early Earth — Grok via Astrobiology.com Isolating the first spark of life on Earth is…
#NewsBeep #News #Science #Autocatalysis #biosignature #CA #Canada #Evolution #Kauffmannetworks #originoflife #prebioticchemistry #primordialsoup #RandomBooleanNetworks #RNAautocatalysis #YaleUniversity
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It's really cool that we found salt crystals and amino acids on #AsteroidBennu. Salty brine in #space!
It's no surprise to astrobiologists that we found those things; it does not “upend” any of our understanding of #PrebioticChemistry, it confirms what we knew.
Cool discovery, with a false clickbait headline in Nature.
Here's an evo-biologist with more:
“We might have to upend a few theories if these molecules were found to have been assembled by living organisms that had been living on an ancient space rock. But they weren’t, so nobody is rewriting any biology textbooks.”
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/29/soup-in-spaaaaace/
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30-Nov-2023
Shedding light on the synthesis of #sugars before the #OriginOfLifeScientists investigate the possible chemical pathways by which pentoses could have formed on early Earth
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1008856 #science #astrobiology #PrebioticChemistry
paper is on open access in JACS Au: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacsau.3c00299 where Au appears to be standing for gold (not for eg alternative universe)
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Scientists recreated classic origin-of-life experiment and made a new discovery - Enlarge / Stanley Miller with the original laboratory equipment used in... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1807727 #miller-ureyexperiment #prebioticchemistry #historyofscience #organicmolecules #originoflife #abiogenesis #chemistry #science