Category: Life Sciences
James Tour: Reviewing the Challenges for Abiogenesis
To coincide with James Tour’s highly anticipated debate with YouTuber Dave Farina, we pulled this gem out of the archive for your listening pleasure!
Origin of Life: James Tour and Dave Farina Will Debate at Rice University on Friday; Watch Here
Dr. Tour is highly skeptical that theorists have got it all figured out about how life arose on a barren early Earth through known material processes alone.
Film Festival 2023 — “Cascading Problems: The Case of Oxygen”
Today we are screening from the “Your Designed Body” series which explores the cascading problem of how oxygen is transported to the body’s trillions of cells.
Sandgrouse Takes the Royal Society to Design School
Episode guest Brian Miller talks with host Casey Luskin about the details of the ingenious design.
Uracil Discovered on Asteroid Ryugu — What Does It Mean for the Origin of Life?
These Ryugu samples appear to be our first chance to examine which organic compounds may be produced in a prebiotic setting in our solar system.