The Miller-Urey hypothesis is based on a famous 1952 experiment in which researchers successfully formed these organic molecules by applying an electrical current to a mixture of water and Earth’s ...

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Life's building blocks may not have been crafted in the lightning flashes of a tempest, a new study suggests, so much as in the ceaseless glow of rolling ocean mists.

Life may not have begun with a dramatic lightning strike into the ocean but from many smaller "microlightning" exchanges ...

Mar. 13, 2025 — Researchers have advanced a decades-old challenge in the field of organic semiconductors, opening new possibilities for the future of electronics. The researchers have created an ...

T here are multiple theories that explain the origin of life on Earth, but one of the most disputed ones was proposed in 1953 ...

A mild and simple method to access an important pharmaceutical scaffold, the bicyclohexane motif, has been developed using ...

One famous experiment conducted in 1952 by American chemists Stanley Miller and Harold Urey provided a possible explanation: ...

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