Ice tubes in polar seas — “brinicles” or “sea stalactites” — provide clues to origin of life
Life on Earth may have originated not in warm tropical seas, but with weird tubes of ice — sometimes called “sea stalactites” — that grow downward into cold seawater near the Earth’s poles, scientists are reporting. Their article on these “brinicles” appears in ACS’ journalLangmuir. Bruno Escribano and colleagues explain that scientists know surprisingly little … Read more