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Letter: Did life on Earth get crushed into existence?

Published 18 June 2025

From Greg Blonder, Brookline, Massachusetts, US

If mechanochemistry can transmute chemical compounds by smashing them in a ball mill, perhaps the chemical precursors of life didn’t arise in a warm tidal pool, but under rocks and pebbles compressed by geological forces(24 May, p 38).

Issue no. 3548 published 21 June 2025

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