The Miller-Urey experiment, as it is now known, supported the scientific theory of abiogenesis: that life could emerge from nonliving molecules. For the new study, scientists revisited the 1953 ...

The experiment that Miller performed with Urey, his advisor at the University of Chicago, demonstrated that amino acids needed for life could be made in a flask by a simple experiment. Though the ...

the Miller-Urey experiment, which used a laboratory device that replicated the early Earth to create lightning-like discharges and synthesize the amino acids that gave rise to life. A new study ...