{"id":126637,"date":"2021-08-22T15:22:58","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T22:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/scientists-re-create-what-may-be-lifes-first-spark"},"modified":"2021-08-22T15:22:58","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T22:22:58","slug":"scientists-re-create-what-may-be-lifes-first-spark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/scientists-re-create-what-may-be-lifes-first-spark","title":{"rendered":"Scientists re-create what may be life\u2019s first spark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-re-create-what-may-be-lifes-first-spark.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2014<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scientists in a lab used a powerful laser to re-create what might have been the original spark of life on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers zapped clay and a chemical soup with the laser to simulate the energy of a speeding asteroid smashing into the planet. They ended up creating what can be considered crucial pieces of the building blocks of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/life\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">life<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The findings do not prove that this is how life started on Earth about 4 billion years ago, and some scientists were unimpressed with the results. But the experiment does bolster the long-held theory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2014 Scientists in a lab used a powerful laser to re-create what might have been the original spark of life on Earth. The researchers zapped clay and a chemical soup with the laser to simulate the energy of a speeding asteroid smashing into the planet. They ended up creating what can be considered crucial [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}