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Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Comet impacts may have led to life on Earth -- and perhaps elsewhere

Comet impact on Earth are synonymous with great extinctions, but now research shows that early comet impact would have become a driving force to cause substantial synthesis of peptides -- the first building blocks of life. This may have implications for the genesis of life on other worlds.

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