Resumen de Life's roots seen in liquid time capsule
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.
