First sparks of life could have appeared from volcanoes
Mihai Andrei
Jeffrey Bada is a researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He and his colleagues reanalyzed the classic experiment concerning the origins of life conducted by Stanley Miller who along with Harold Urey realized what we know today as the Miller-Urey experiment. This experiment showed that organic compounds can be created with no relative difficulty from inorganic substances.
Bada was a student of Miller’s, and he is now a professor of marine chemistry at the UC of San Diego. He worked...