For years, researchers have puzzled over how two ingredients for life first linked up on early Earth. Now, they’ve found the “missing link,” and demonstrated this reaction in the lab.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20250827153505/https://www.404media.co/scientists-make-breakthrough-in-solving-the-mystery-of-lifes-origin/
That’s how most significant scientific discovery works. If you could expect it, it’s probably not significant.