Nanoparticles in Some of The World’s Oldest Rocks Found to Hide Clues on Life’s Origins : ScienceAlert
Encased inside some of the oldest rocks on Earth are previously overlooked nanocrystals that tell a story about how life might have emerged.Earth scientists at the University of Western Australia and the University of Cambridge say their findings could explain why phosphorus became a major building block of life and how molecules first clicked together to form primitive RNA at hydrothermal vents on the seafloor.They examined 3.5-billion-year-old rocks from the Pilbara region of Western Australia under a transmission…