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New research shows how RNA, a key molecule for life, may have formed on early Earth using simple chemistry and materials delivered by asteroid impacts, linking space science with the origins of life ...
A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...