{"id":85293,"date":"2018-11-30T05:44:31","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T13:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/life-on-earth-could-have-started-thanks-to-a-simple-ingredient-we-use-every-day"},"modified":"2018-11-30T05:44:31","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T13:44:31","slug":"life-on-earth-could-have-started-thanks-to-a-simple-ingredient-we-use-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/life-on-earth-could-have-started-thanks-to-a-simple-ingredient-we-use-every-day","title":{"rendered":"Life on Earth Could Have Started Thanks to a Simple Ingredient We Use Every Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/life-on-earth-could-have-started-thanks-to-a-simple-ingredient-we-use-every-day.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If classic monster movies and old science experiments are to be believed, life begins with a spark.<\/p>\n<p>Not everybody is convinced by this kind of origin story, so the search continues for sources of energy capable of transforming a prebiotic soup into a life-generating dish. Maybe the secret ingredient isn\u2019t anything more shocking than a pinch of salt.<\/p>\n<p>A new study led by researchers from the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan has turned their attention to common old sodium chloride as a potential conduit for the chemical energy required for early biochemistry.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/common-table-salt-could-be-the-missing-ingredient-that-helped-kick-start-life\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/common-table-salt-could-be-the-...start-life<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If classic monster movies and old science experiments are to be believed, life begins with a spark. Not everybody is convinced by this kind of origin story, so the search continues for sources of energy capable of transforming a prebiotic soup into a life-generating dish. Maybe the secret ingredient isn\u2019t anything more shocking than a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85293","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}