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Originally published by New Scientist 18th August 2007 p.15 col.4
Could life in deep space be made from mere inorganic particles of dust? According toa computer simulation, electically charged dust can organised itself into spiral structures that behave in many ways like living organisims; reproducing and passing on information to one another.
"It has a lot of the hallmarks for how we define life," says Gregor Morfill of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestial Physics in Garching, Germany. Morfill and his colleagues simulated what happens to dust immersed in an ionised gas. The team found that the dust sometimes forms double helices and, like DNA, they can store information.
Originally posted by redled
Originally published by New Scientist 18th August 2007 p.15 col.4
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