Tag: water
Long Story Short — A Strikingly Unnatural Property of Biopolymers
Scientists have been trying for decades to get monomers to link up into biopolymers under “prebiotically plausible conditions.”
Do We Live on a Privileged Planet?
Yes, rainbows are beautiful, but are they good for anything? Indeed, they have been very important for science.
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.
Wild Rice Sues to Stop Repair of Oil Pipeline
Two years ago the Ojibwe tribe granted wild rice the “right to exist,” which could be said to be a synonym for a right to life.
Painting by Neanderthals? Study Makes a Design Inference
An observation that supports a non-natural origin is that the pigment appears only in a small, conspicuous location.