We may have had several billion years under our belts to figure it out, but scientists today continue to be puzzled by how early cellular life on Earth first came to be.
And, more precisely, the chemical compounds which allowed it to happen.
Now it seems a new study might be able to provide some of the answers, after a team of chemists stumbled upon the ‘missing’ compound that could have been the catalyst for this epic journey to begin.
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