Life on Earth may have originated as the organic filling in a multilayer sandwich of mica sheets, according to Helen Hansma of the National Science Foundation and the University of California, Santa ...

My first memory of mica (the mineral) was going rockhounding with my dad in Ruggles Mine back in the '60s. I was little and the caves seemed huge, the mica glittered, and I remember huge transparent ...

New “soup and sandwich” hypothesis suggests spaces between mica layers may have provided exactly the right conditions for earliest life Earth’s first life may have developed between the layers of a ...

Life may have begun in the protected spaces inside of layers of the mineral mica, in ancient oceans, according to a new theory. The narrow, confined spaces between nonliving mica layers could have ...

(Nanowerk News) Van der Waals epitaxy (vdWE) has recently been identified as a facile synthesis technique in the growth of ultrathin two dimensional (2D) layered materials and their vertical ...

This is a diagram of biomolecules between sheets of mica in a primitive ocean. The green lines depict mica sheets and the gray structures depict various ancient biological molecules and fatty vesicles ...

The remarkable properties of high-grade sheet mica as an insulator make it invaluable as a strategic war material, where it is essential for radio tubes, radar equipment, condensers, airplane ...