Life's roots seen in liquid time capsule

• Autores: Colin Barras
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3036, 2015, pág. 12
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • It has all the ingredients of the primordial soup. Yet biological processes appear to have played no part in forming the life-friendly chemicals discovered in a pocket of water that last saw the light of day 1.5 billion years ago. Barbara Sherwood Lollar at the University of Toronto in Canada and her team discovered the water a few years ago, oozing out of the rocky walls deep in the Kidd mine near Timmins in Ontario. Chemical analysis suggested that the water had been sealed away inside a cavity in the rock. The water appears to contain no life--making it an extremely rare find.