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First PROTOS Field Trip: El Tatio, Chile

The specific goal is to study the processes of silica nucleation and sinter precipitation under these extreme conditions A team…

6 months hace

PROTOS researchers participate in Goldschmidt Conference 2025 with new insights into life’s earliest stages

At Goldschmidt 2025 in Prague, PROTOS researchers will showcase groundbreaking insights into the geochemical pathways and mineral catalysts that shaped…

6 months hace

Silica and the spark of life: new research reveals how protocells formed on early earth

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) shows that protocells and prebiotic compounds…

11 months hace

Strengthening Collaboration: Highlights from the Second PROTOS On-Site Meeting in Granada

The second PROTOS on-site meeting, organized in Granada (Spain) from November 27th to 29th, 2024, by the Spanish National Research…

11 months hace

The project

An artist’s vision of the Hadean era, the geochemical scenario of the origin of life that PROTOS will study /…

1 year hace

Team Members

Prof. Juan Manuel García-Ruiz, Principal Investigator Ikerbasque Research Professor at the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), his main fields of…

1 year hace