Publications by authors named "Surendra V Singh"
Article Synopsis
- Research suggests that impacts from comets could have delivered prebiotic compounds to early Earth, potentially leading to the beginnings of life.
- Experiments involving hypervelocity impacts on icy mixtures of amino acids showed that shock processing can synthesize complex molecules, like polypeptide chains.
- The findings imply that impacts on icy celestial bodies could create essential building blocks for life, not only on Earth but also on other planets.
The building blocks of life, amino acids, are believed to have been synthesized in the extreme conditions that prevail in space, starting from simple molecules containing hydrogen, carbon, oxygen and nitrogen. However, the fate and role of amino acids when they are subjected to similar processes largely remain unexplored. Here we report, for the first time, that shock processed amino acids tend to form complex agglomerate structures.
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