Life's building blocks recreated under space-like conditions
Moffet Field CA (SPX) Apr 23, 2015 - Researchers have reproduced a wide array of building blocks for life in a prebiotic scenario involving meteorites and the solar wind. They began with formamide, a simple organic compound that's ubiquitous in the universe. Formamide has been detected in galactic centers, star-forming regions, interstellar space, as well as comets and satellites. They then added meteorite powder as a catalys ... more
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