Robotic arm probes chemistry of 3-D objects by mass spectrometry

März 27 07:00 2014 by Chemiede

When life on Earth was first getting started, simple molecules bonded together into the precursors of modern genetic material. A catalyst would have been needed, but enzymes had not yet evolved. One theory is that the catalytic minerals on a meteorite’s surface could have jump-started life’s first c…