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Molecules/Matter & Energy

Sulfur found in life's possible early building blocks, plus fingerprint clues and frozen blood in this week's news

By Science News

- More than 2 years ago

Miller-Urey redux: sulfur version

A new analysis of samples left over from a famous experiment done more than 50 years ago may shed light on life’s origins. In the 1950s, chemists zapping a primordial stew of compounds with electricity produced amino acids, the building blocks of proteins.