{"id":172387,"date":"2023-09-19T22:25:11","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T03:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/new-recipes-for-origin-of-life-may-point-way-to-distant-inhabited-planets"},"modified":"2023-09-19T22:25:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T03:25:11","slug":"new-recipes-for-origin-of-life-may-point-way-to-distant-inhabited-planets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/new-recipes-for-origin-of-life-may-point-way-to-distant-inhabited-planets","title":{"rendered":"New recipes for origin of life may point way to distant, inhabited planets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-recipes-for-origin-of-life-may-point-way-to-distant-inhabited-planets2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Life on a faraway planet\u2014if it\u2019s out there\u2014might not look anything like life on Earth. But there are only so many chemical ingredients in the universe\u2019s pantry, and only so many ways to mix them. A team led by scientists at the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison has exploited those limitations to write a cookbook of hundreds of chemical recipes with the potential to give rise to life.<\/p>\n<p>Their ingredient list could focus the search for life elsewhere in the universe by pointing out the most likely conditions\u2014planetary versions of mixing techniques, oven temperatures and baking times\u2014for the recipes to come together.<\/p>\n<p>The process of progressing from basic <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/chemical+ingredients\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">chemical ingredients<\/a> to the complex cycles of cell metabolism and reproduction that define life, the researchers say, requires not only a simple beginning but also repetition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life on a faraway planet\u2014if it\u2019s out there\u2014might not look anything like life on Earth. But there are only so many chemical ingredients in the universe\u2019s pantry, and only so many ways to mix them. A team led by scientists at the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison has exploited those limitations to write a cookbook of hundreds [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172387","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}