Sentences with phrase «alkaline hydrothermal vents»
Even so, its supporters still have to provide firm evidence that larger molecules and membranes can be synthesised at alkaline hydrothermal vents, says David Deamer of the University of California, Santa Cruz, who is a leading proponent of the idea that life evolved in evaporating pools instead.
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The acetate is a product of methane and hydrogen from the alkaline hydrothermal vents and carbon dioxide dissolved in the surrounding ocean.
Three new papers co-authored by Mike Russell, a research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., strengthen the case that Earth's first life began at alkaline hydrothermal vents at the bottom of oceans.
Alkaline hydrothermal vents of this type are suggested to be the birthplace of the first living organisms on the ancient Earth.
Alkaline hydrothermal vents are found on the seafloor near where tectonic plates meet.
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Following Wednesday's news that there seem to be hydrothermal vents churning away in the warm, alkaline seas inside Saturn's moon Enceladus, researchers announced airtight evidence yesterday that Jupiter's moon Ganymede also has a -LSB-...]