Meteorite Splash Kick-started Life

摘要

The impacts of meteorites whizzing into primordial oceans may have created amino acids, the building blocks of life.rnYoshihiro Furukawa at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan, and his team knew that high-pressure impacts can create ammonia.rnTo test whether such impacts could form other molecules, they shot a mixture of meteorite ingredients - solid carbon, iron and nickel - at high speed into water.