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Unraveling where life on Earth began involves figuring out where the molecules that make up life come from. A shallow, salty body of water could hold answers.
Researchers found Last Chance Lake has right ingredients for formation of early life
At the beginning of a biology textbook, one might expect a chapter detailing the origin of life. Despite scientists going from learning that DNA was a double-helix, to sequencing gene-editing
A shallow soda lake in Canada could resemble Darwin's 'warm little ponds' found on the primordial Earth that had the right chemistry for life to get started.
Soda lakes could be a strong candidate for the place where life emerged on Earth. They also could be a candidate for life on other planets.