The Origin of Life
- Sun 27 Mar 2011 03:00:PM
How did life start on Earth? Science still has no definitive answer. But in the 1950s, a pair of chemists mixed a stew of poisonous gases, like you'd find at a volcano. They zapped it with electricity, mimicking lightning. And they found that they'd created a fewamino acids. All life on Earth relies on these compounds to make proteins. [More]
Source: The Origin of Life