(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 ...

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 ...

New “soup and sandwich” hypothesis suggests spaces between mica layers may have provided exactly the right conditions for earliest life Earth’s first life may have developed between the layers of a ...

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 ...

My first memory of mica (the mineral) was going rockhounding with my dad in Ruggles Mine back in the '60s. I was little and the caves seemed huge, the mica glittered, and I remember huge transparent ...

This story first appeared at UCSB’s The Current. In mythologies and origin stories around the world, various cultures and religions point to clay as the vessel of life, the primordial material that ...

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Washington, D.C. -- 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 ...