# 888-Investigating the Mystery of How Life Formed

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Podcast: [Travelers In The Night](https://stenobird.com/podcast/travelers-in-the-night-1048610)
Published: 2026-02-27T16:00:13+00:00
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## Resource

On Earth living things are everywhere from the deepest ocean depths to the highest mountain tops. On our home planet RNA (Ribonucleic Acid) is a complex essential molecule involved in the process of translating genetic information into the working components of living cells. In a recent paper in the peer reviewed scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , Dr. Yuta Hirakawa and his team of two coauthors report on their experiments to produce RNA under conditions similar to those which may have occurred in the early history of Earth and Mars.

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