Some people used the start of the pandemic to up their bread-making skills; one MIT professor and her son set up experiments to see if the building blocks of life could survive in the clouds of Venus

MIT News reports on experiments that showed that amino acids, a key building block of life on earth, might be able to survive in the sulfuric-acid clouds that make up the atmosphere on Venus.

Among the contributors to an article in Astrobiology are MIT astrophysicist and planetary biologist Sara Seager and her son Maxwell, a student at Worcester Polytechnic. MIT News says the two "began their studies of sulfuric acid during the pandemic, carrying out their experiments in a home laboratory."