News just in that will interest Lovecraft devotees. From NASA and published in a reputable journal…

scientists [from NASA have found] that ready-made DNA parts could have crashed to earth’s surface on objects like meteorites, and then assembled under earth’s early conditions to create the first DNA. The researchers, from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, made their discovery using samples from 12 carbon-rich meteorites, nine of which came from Antarctica […] The research was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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