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This is Scientific Americans' 60-second science. I'm Sarah Vytak.

The question of how life came to be has captivated humans for millennia.

The prevailing theory now is that on a highly volatile early earth, lightning struck mineral-rich waters,

and that the energy from lightning strikes turned those minerals into the building blocks of life,

organic compounds like amino acids, leaving behind something we often refer to as the primordial soup.

The wide acceptance of this theory is in large part due to the very famous Miller-Yuri

experiment. You surely encountered this in a science textbook at some point, but to refresh your

memory, in 1952, Stanley Miller and Harold Yuri simulated the conditions of early Earth by sealing

water, methane, ammonia, and hydrogen in a glass flask. Then they applied electrical

sparks to the mixture. Miraculously, amino acids came into existence amid the roiling mixture. It was a big

deal. But recently, a team of researchers realized that, much like the first primordial soup,

sitting in a bowl of earth, the lab experiments container played an underappreciated

role. That perhaps it was also critical to the creation of organic building blocks inside their

laboratory life soup. I talked to someone from the team. I am Rafael Saladino from

University of Tusha in Italy. Then, much like today, when a researcher goes to start an experiment,

often one of the first things they do is reach for their glassware.

Well, today, actually, we use a lot of plastic as well.

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