The chemistry is so simple that a high schooler could do it, making it a promising candidate for life's origins.
The origin of life on Earth is one of the great mysteries of science, but new research says that the answer is so simple that not only could a high school chemistry class reproduce it, but it might have once occurred on ancient Mars.
"Communities studying the origins of life have diverged in recent years," Steven Benner, a study co-author., said in a "Basaltic glass was everywhere on Earth at the time," said Stephen Mojzsis, an Earth scientist and participant in the study."For several hundred million years after the Moon formed, frequent impacts coupled with abundant volcanism on the young planet formed molten basaltic lava, the source of the basalt glass. Impacts also evaporated water to give dry land, providing aquifers where RNA could have formed.
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