Mineral Self-Assembly and the Origins of Life (VIDEO)
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A team led by scientists from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) has confirmed that in natural alkaline waters characterized by a high pH, silica is capable of making complex self-assembling mineral structures. In the paper, which appears in the journal Science Advances, the team's scientists suggest that silica-provoked self-organization would have been a common phenomenon on early Earth, as well as on planets like ours, where alkaline environments were widespread.
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