That age-old question, "where did life on Earth start?" now has a new answer. If the life between the mica sheets hypothesis is correct, life would have originated between sheets of mica that were ...

Life on Earth may have originated as the organic filling in a multilayer sandwich of mica sheets, according to Helen Hansma of the National Science Foundation and the University of California, Santa ...

Life may have begun in the protected spaces inside of layers of the mineral mica, in ancient oceans, according to a new theory. The narrow, confined spaces between nonliving mica layers could have ...

In mythologies and origin stories around the world, various cultures and religions point to clay as the vessel of life, the primordial material that creator gods imbued with a self-sustaining ...

Soup and pizza couldn’t explain the origins of life, so a researcher built a sandwich of an idea instead. The new hypothesis describes how flaky layers of the mineral mica could have created the ...

This is a diagram of biomolecules between sheets of mica in a primitive ocean. The green lines depict mica sheets and the gray structures depict various ancient biological molecules and fatty vesicles ...

(Nanowerk News) Van der Waals epitaxy (vdWE) has recently been identified as a facile synthesis technique in the growth of ultrathin two dimensional (2D) layered materials and their vertical ...

The remarkable properties of high-grade sheet mica as an insulator make it invaluable as a strategic war material, where it is essential for radio tubes, radar equipment, condensers, airplane ...