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Origin of Life

A diagram of left-handed and right-handed versions of the amino acid isovaline, found in the Murchison meteorite.

Life’s Molecular Mirror Mystery: RNA Shows No Preference for Left or Right

An iron meteorite from the core of a melted planetesimal (left) and a chondrite meteorite, derived from a ‘primitive’, unmelted planetesimal (right).

How did the building blocks of life arrive on Earth?

Researchers simulate the conditions of interstellar space with this ultrahigh-vacuum, low-temperature chamber containing an electron source to recreate the seeds of life.

How Space Ice Could Hold the Key to Life’s Origins

Caption: Professor Johan Lissenberg (left) and colleagues analysing the cores, which were recovered from a “tectonic window” on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

Record-Breaking Mantle Rock Recovery Offers New Insights into Earth’s History

Christine Kriebisch and Prof. Job Boekhoven investigate how the first life evolved.

What gave the first molecules their stability?

Erupting volcano

Meteoritic and volcanic particles may have promoted origin of life reactions

Origin of Life: Unsolved or Unsolvable?

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