In early Earth’s chemical soup, toxic hydrogen cyanide (HCN) was the unlikely hero ingredient. Though a killer to all but a few lifeforms, HCN is at the base of a host of prebiotic chemical reactions. Without it, life may never arisen on our planet. Though it’s just a simple molecule with three atoms, its importance […]

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