Images of organic blobs artificially colored by Ahanjit BhattacharyaSimple organic bubbles can be made in a new way that could help us understand how life began on Earth's early days.Protocells may have been nothing more than simple, spherical compartments that contained water and the life molecules. It is not clear how these compartments or "vesicles" came to be.According to Neal Devaraj, University of Massachusetts, it is the ultimate chicken-egg paradox.