Tag: carbon
There’s a Limit to What Nature Can Do
Nature actually has precious few options for manipulating the natural ingredients (atoms) of this universe.
Supreme Elegance: The Fine-Tuning of the Properties of Matter for Life on Earth
In the biochemical domain, nature is indeed, as Isaac Newton rightly claimed, “pleased with simplicity” and abhors “superfluous causes.”
Saturn’s Moon Titan as a Habitability Test
It’s called one of the most earthlike environments in the solar system with an atmosphere and organic molecules. How does it measure up compared to Earth?
Michael Denton on Nature’s Fitness for Life
Carbon’s suite of life-friendly features is foundational to the cell’s peerless ability to build sophisticated biological forms.
The Remarkable Carbon Atom
This is another one of many countless features of our universe that have to be “just right” for life — in particular, advanced life — to exist.