How did life on Earth begin? Cracks may have been the key
In a groundbreaking experiment in the early 1950s, a scientist tried to re-create the conditions of early Earth in a test tube.
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In a groundbreaking experiment in the early 1950s, a scientist tried to re-create the conditions of early Earth in a test tube.
Bodies of water such as this might have functioned as cradles of life, given their unique biogeochemistry.
Earth lacks some of the ingredients that would have been key to the origins of life – they may have been delivered to glacial ponds by tiny specks of cosmic dust
The 'Last Chance Lake' in Canada's British Columbia province contains the highest levels of concentrated phosphate ever recorded in any natural body of water on Earth. The shallow body of water reportedly contains precise blend of chemicals that could point to origin of life on Earth. The salty body of water situated on volcanic rock is much like the carbonate-rich lakes in ancient Earth that could have been a "cradle of life", according to a study.
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