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Ocean fizz could have helped to kick-start life

Microscopic bubbles can bring together biomolecules such as DNA.
Carbonate spires in the Lost City vent field

A spire in a group of hydrothermal vents in the Atlantic Ocean. Some of life’s building blocks might have formed on miniature bubbles at vents. Credit: IFE/URI-IAO/UW/NOAA/OAR/OER

Tiny bubbles might have helped to impose order on the rambunctious molecules that formed the precursors of life — a necessary step for life on Earth to evolve.

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Nature 572, 156 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-02318-9

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