Lightning may have sparked life on Earth, study finds – The Jakarta Post – Jakarta Post

Lightning strikes may have supplied primordial Earth with enough phosphorus to support the emergence of life, according to new research Tuesday that offered an alternative explanation as to how living organisms were born.
Phosphorus is a vital building block of life as we know it, forming basic cell structures and the double helix shape of DNA and RNA. 
Billions of years ago on early Earth, most of the available phosphorus was locked away in insoluble minerals. 
However one mineral, schreibersite,…

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