Furman faculty/student research: Ancient water could have driven early protein formation on Earth
GREENVILLE, S.C. (courtesy furman.edu) — Long before dinosaurs, people and even microbes, Earth was hot with an atmosphere of trillions of gaseous molecules swirling around. Some of those molecules were water, while others were the building blocks of proteins, known as amino acids, which arrived on the planet from space. It’s still an open question, …