Life on Earth may have begun as dividing droplets
Shape-shifting blobs of chemicals could split to reproduce, simulations show
![chemicals within a primordial soup](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/032017_ec_droplets.jpg?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
DROPS DIVIDE Droplets of chemicals (green) within a primordial soup (blue) can elongate, split and replicate (top row, left to right), new simulations indicate. That process repeats (bottom row) to create new generations of droplets, in a process that mimics reproduction and could reveal the origins of life.
D. Zwicker et al/Nature Physics 2016