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New study: It’s possible life originated in ice

News: Origin of Life    September 27, 2010
Life (on Earth) had to start somewhere, why not in ice? Why not indeed, except that for many decades it’s been assumed that life started in a – warm – primordial soup of some kind. Perhaps not a ‘soup,’ but somewhere warm or nearly hot (not boiling, of course) such as near an undersea volcanic [...]
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Ribozymes and the origin of life

News: Origin of Life    February 24, 2010
It could be called the search for the origin of life, but instead of a sweeping theory (primordial soup and lightning), microbiologists are concentrating on the many pieces that, one way or another, came together to constitute ‘life.’ Some new research from a team at the University of Colorado (Boulder, USA) points to the smallest [...]
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