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A student made cosmic dust in her lab—what she found could help us understand how life started on Earth

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"We no longer have to wait for an asteroid or comet to come to Earth to understand their histories," Linda Losurdo said in a statement.

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A student made cosmic dust in her lab—what she found could help us understand how life started on Earth

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In a Sydney lab, a master's student took a mixture of gases and applied a high-voltage pulse to it. This produced microscopic dust particles nearly identical to the material found in comets and meteorites. And from this, researchers can learn a great deal about how life on Earth originated. The method of […] Want more science? Read the latest articles on Scientias.nl .

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A PhD in Sydney. A student recreated a small piece of the universe in a bottle in her lab, producing cosmic dust from scratch. The results shed new light on how the chemical components of life were formed long before the existence of the [...]

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