Tag: iron
Doctor’s Diary: No Such Thing as a Coincidence
I find coincidences everywhere I look, all the time. Consider a simple blade of grass. One could write a long treatise about the simultaneous goings-on therein.
Oceanic Design: The Fine-Tuned Balance of Trace Elements for Marine Life
This long-term cycling is again indicative of a system that was well designed for sustainability.
Plate Tectonics and Scientific Discovery
Plate tectonics is important for advanced life in multiple ways and planets with plate tectonics are very rare.
The Story of Metals Points to Nature’s Foresight, Planning, Preparation
A confluence of conditions conspired to bring metals to Earth and make them accessible to humans. But can a Darwinian process take the credit?
Enceladus as a Habitability Test
High up on the astrobiologists’ bucket list for further exploration is a little moon of Saturn. How lively could it be at Enceladus?