Author: Rob Stadler
Purifying Bad Results: How Origin-of-Life Researchers Cheat via “Relay Synthesis”
This is not a question of scale — even if the “chemist’s flask” were the entire Earth.
Researchers Overlook Toxic Products in Origin-of-Life Experiments
They stop reactions at optimal times, and scan through products of their reactions with high-tech equipment to find trace amounts of the product they seek.
Tonight, New “Long Story Short” Video Delivers a Dose of Reality for Origin-of-Life Researchers
In the time of the early Earth, Airgas, the supplier from which the researchers obtained their materials, was not around.