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Primordial soup lives again

Newly analyzed vials hosted contents of an experiment testing whether life could originate in a volcano’s local environment.

By Laura Sanders

- More than 2 years ago

After decades of languishing in a cardboard box, unanalyzed vials from a famous chemistry experiment have been brought back to the lab, revealing new clues to the beginnings of life on Earth.

OLD DATA, NEW FINDINGS Jeffrey Bada holds original samples from Stanley Miller’s famous 1953 primordial soup experiment.