Category: Life Sciences
Death Valley Days: Chemists Propose a Seemingly Unlikely Environment for the Origin of Life
Benner et al.‘s ambitious task was to address some of the most compelling reasons cited by origin-of-life researchers who reject the RNA-world model.
Westminster Conference on Science & Faith 2013: “How Did it All Begin?”
On April 5 and 6 in Philadelphia, the theme will be origins: of the cosmos, of increasingly complex life, of life itself.
Demonstrating, Once Again, the Fantastic Information-Storage Capacity of DNA
Gigabytes have become commonplace, and now we’re warming up to terabytes. Ready for petabytes?
Chemists Ponder the Origin of Life
The American Chemical Society recently dedicated a whole issue of Accounts of Chemical Research to the puzzle of life’s chemical origins.
Magical Thinking in Science Journalism
See if you can follow the logic here. The Telegraph headline says “‘Strongest evidence yet to there being life on Mars.'”