A Stormy, Active Sun May Have Kickstarted Life On Earth, New Study Finds

The first building blocks of life on Earth may have formed as a result of eruptions from the Sun, a new study finds. A series of chemical experiments show how solar particles, colliding with gases in Earth's early atmosphere, can form amino acids and carboxylic acids, the basic building blocks of proteins and organic life.

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