Seafloor Chemistry: Life’s building blocks made inorganically
Seafloor Chemistry: Life’s building blocks made inorganically
Hydrocarbons in fluids spewing from hydrothermal vents
on the seafloor in the central Atlantic were produced by
inorganic chemical reactions deep within the ocean crust,
a finding with implications for the possible origins of life.
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20080202/fob1.asp
Dusty Clues: Study suggests no dearth of Earths
A new study suggests that many, or perhaps most, sunlike stars have planets much
like Earth.
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20080202/fob2.asp