Tag: Origin of Life
Organizer of body axes: 600 million years old molecular principles
In humans and in animals, the correct position of tissues, organs and appendages is essential. Two body axes (the head-tail and the back-belly axes)...
Early Earth’s air weighed less than half of today’s atmosphere
The layers on this 2.7 billion-year-old rock, a stromatolite from Western Australia, show evidence of single-celled, photosynthetic life on the shore of a large...
Origin of life: An artificial comet holds the missing piece
Ultraviolet processing of pre-cometary ices (left) reproduces the natural evolution of interstellar ices observed in molecular clouds (right, the 'Pillars of Creation'), leading to...
