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We still don't know how life on Earth began some point more than 3.5 billion years ago, but a new study supports the idea that vital components of our earliest ancestors emerged from reactions involving ancient hydrothermal vents.One of the most obvious features of a cell is the fatty membrane that demarcates a boundary, concentrating the biochemistry within and separating it from the chaos without.By mixing hydrogen, bicarbonate, and iron-rich magnetite in simulated ancient seawater, a team of researchers from Newcastle…

Hot springs may have served as a catalyst for the origins of life on Earth billions of years ago, a new study has suggested. The study, which is featured in Nature Communications Earth & Environment, suggests that primordial hot springs could have helped produce life from key molecules found within them.To learn more about this, researchers at Newcastle University looked at how the earliest known life on Earth emerged from geological materials more than 3.5 billion years ago. To study this, they mixed…