A historic survey at the bottom of the Atlantic illuminates the chemical reactions between minerals and seawater that could give rise to living beings

Interview in ElPais August 8

The French geologist Rémi Coltat remembers that he left Granada, where he worked at the Andalusian Institute of Earth Sciences, to embark on an epic journey to the Earth’s mantle. The American ship JOIDES Resolution set sail from Ponta Delgada, in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores, on April 12, 2023