> García Ruiz notes that their “protocells” form through the action of bubbling, using repeated units of hydrocyanic acid, a simple molecule composed of one hydrogen atom, one carbon atom, and one nitrogen atom.

Does this mean that the bubbles are actually made of HCN? This would be a lot more compelling if we knew the "cell like structures" were made of lipids like modern cells. I can't understand what's going on from this article well enough to tell whether the hype is warranted.

Self-organization of replicators FTW!

Reminds me of this part of a quote from Douglas Adams[0]:

"Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again."

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/132596-anything-that-happen...