Tag: The Stairway to Life
The Simple Life: Abiogenesis Gets Another Reality Check
When it comes to biological life, even the simplest single-celled organism is an astonishingly complex multi-part system.
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.
New “Long Story Short” Video Delivers a Dose of Reality on Origin-of-Life Research
In the time of the early Earth, Airgas, the supplier from which the researchers obtained their materials, was not around.