🧬 Scientists Solve Key Mystery of How Life Began on Earth

Scientists at University College London have demonstrated how peptides could have spontaneously formed on early Earth four billion years ago through the marriage of RNA molecules and sulfur compounds, potentially solving one of biology's most enduring mysteries about the origin of life.

The breakthrough research, published Wednesday in Nature by Professor Matthew Powner's team, shows for the first time how amino acids can naturally attach to RNA under conditions that likely existed on primordial Earth. This achievement bridges decades of scientific work attempting to understand how life's two fundamental components first came together.

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