Harold Clayton Urey was born in the small town of Walkerton, Indiana, on 29 April 1893. He taught school in Indiana and Montana, then earned bachelor's degrees in biology and chemistry from the ...

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Today, January 21, JoVE, the Journal of Visualized Experiments, published a modern approach to a famed experiment that explored one of the most intriguing research questions facing scientists ...

The Army may have called it the Manhattan Project, but its top-secret program to build the atomic bomb drew its manpower from all over the country, and a lot of its brain power from New Jersey. Many ...

Building on the original Miller-Urey experiments, new work shows that some ingredients of the "primordial soup" came from a thoroughly unexpected place. The results may have implications for our ...

Had Surveyor 3 landed on the moon’s Ocean of Storms some 4 billion years ago, it might have created an even bigger splash than it made last week. For early in lunar history, Nobel Laureate Harold Urey ...

Put yourself in a world with a harsh, dark, fiery atmosphere. There is no one in sight. Clouds of smoke, chains of lightning and streams of lava cascade across this hellish landscape. The air is hard ...

There aren't a lot of individual experiments that have ended up being staples of high school textbooks, but Stanley Miller and Harold Urey did one of them. Miller and Urey are the people who sealed up ...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- A classic experiment proving amino acids are created when inorganic molecules are exposed to electricity isn't the whole story, it turns out. The 1953 Miller-Urey Synthesis had ...