The earliest days of Earth held secrets that scientists are still trying to uncover. One of the greatest mysteries is how life began. A key part of the answer lies in a rare element: phosphorus. This ...
A Sydney Ph.D. student has recreated a tiny piece of the universe inside a bottle in her laboratory, producing cosmic dust from scratch. The results shed new light on how the chemical building blocks ...
The origin of life is one big chemical Catch-22. It always has been. To get life started, you need a genetic molecule—something like RNA or DNA. That’s needed to store information about how to ...
PhD candidate and lead author of the study Linda Losurdo in the plasma physics laboratory at the University of Sydney. A Sydney PhD student has recreated a tiny piece of the Universe inside a bottle ...