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Scientists recreated classic origin-of-life experiment and made a new discovery

Enlarge / Stanley Miller with the original laboratory equipment used in the 1952 Miller-Urey Experiment, which gave credence to the idea that organic molecules could have been created by the conditions of the early Earth’s atmosphere. (credit: Roger Ressmeyer/Corbis/VCG/Getty Images) In 1952, a University of Chicago chemist named Stanley Miller and his adviser, Harold Urey, […]