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Hydrothermal vents supply a geochemical precursor of ATP that could have powered early life
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SignalsMonitor is following this as a technology story. Phys.org Breaking News is the outlet attached so far. The first report grouped here was at 6 Oct 2026, 22:00 UTC. The headline in use is “Hydrothermal vents supply a geochemical precursor of ATP that could have powered early life”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
Where did the energy come from to power the chemical origin of life, and how did phosphate come to be the universal energy currency of cells? Biologists from the Institute of Molecular Evolution at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) have uncovered a new source of energy that drove primordial chemical…
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Hydrothermal vents supply a geochemical precursor of ATP that could have powered early life
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