[Rockhounds] Lightning may have provided prebiotic phosphorus for the origin of life on Earth

[Paul]

How A Building Block Of Life Got Created In A Flash
Heard on Morning Edition, NPR, March 16, 2021
https://www.npr.org/2021/03/16/977769884/how-a-building-block-of-life-got-created-in-a-flash

Lightning may have sparked life on Earth
By Ashley Strickland, CNN, March 16, 2021
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/16/world/lightning-early-earth-life-scn-trnd/index.html

The paper is:

Hess, B.L., Piazolo, S. and Harvey, J. 2012, Lightning
  strikes as a major facilitator of prebiotic phosphorus
  reduction on early Earth. Nature Communications 12, 1535
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-21849-2#citeas

Yours,

Paul H.