"Its life Jim, but not as we know it"

Over Fifty Years ago, a chemist named Stanley Miller started a series of experiments ......

Its Life Jim, But Not As We Know It

..... to try and recreate the conditions on the early Earth, and to attempt to create the building blocks of life.

This year those early experiments (for which Miller never got a Nobel Prize), and some that he never publicised, simulations of other possible environment types such as gases released in volcanic eruptions, were rediscovered, and more sensitive analysis was undertaken.

Of particular interest was the 'other scenarios,' which actually more closely emulated what we now believe to be the conditions on the early Earth, and guess what, Mr Miller had actually created more and a greater diversity, of those vital Amino Acids.

It's likely that Mr Millers theory about how life, or at least the conditions in which life can develop, are correct and that he had the proof, lying in some old flasks.

If they ever decide to give posthumous Nobel Prizes, then surely this man should be the first one given ..... the 'Father' of life on Earth, and most probably in the Universe as well.