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Tag: origin of life

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Did lightning provide food for life’s beginning?

Posted on April 10, 2023April 17, 2023 by Aubrey Zerkle

Lightning bolts can be deadly or destructive, but some researchers propose they might also have supplied essential elements for the first…

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    Building the molecules of life in the lab

    Posted on January 3, 2022October 24, 2022 by Gina Misra

    The hyperbranched polymer scaffold could have been the early primitive base for the emergence of life. @t_z_jia @CerberaOdollam…

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      Intelligent life might be rare

      Posted on September 17, 2021October 24, 2022 by Sciworthy

      How hard is it for evolution to produce intelligent life like humans? We don't really know, but some computational modelers tried to answer…

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        Chemicals on mineral surfaces may have jumpstarted life

        Posted on November 5, 2020October 24, 2022 by Sciworthy

        Were metabolic pathways established before life emerged? New experiments observe life-like patterns self-propagating on #mineral surfaces.…

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          We can learn about life on other planets by studying viruses

          Posted on January 1, 2020October 24, 2022 by Justin Dingman

          Scientists from the University of Zurich and the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, as well as the Icahn School of Medicine at…

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            Are the building blocks of life at the bottom of the sea?

            Posted on May 15, 2019October 24, 2022 by Osama Alian

            Scientists recreated a deep-ocean environment where underwater volcanoes spew heat and chemicals to test whether or not biological molecules…

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              Using Gas Bubbles in Lava to Predict Ancient Air Pressure

              Posted on May 24, 2018October 24, 2022 by Sciworthy

              What was the weather like in New York last week? You can look it up on weather.com. What was it like on March 7, 1953, in the pre-internet…

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