TagsTagsA fascinating discovery, from the tail of a comet 242 million miles away from Earth: Building block of life found on comet. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The amino acid glycine, a fundamental building block of proteins, has been found in a comet for the first time, bolstering the theory that ...
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The New York Times Science section has a fascinating article on the current state of research into the origin of life on earth: New Glimpses of Life’s Puzzling Origins. Some 3.9 billion years ago, a shift in the orbit of the Sun’s outer planets sent a surge of large comets ...
Scientists in Britain have made a breakthrough in their research into the origins of life on earth: How RNA Got Started. The new findings map out a series of simple, efficient chemical reactions that could have formed molecules of RNA, a close cousin of DNA, from the basic materials available ...
Here’s an interesting back-and-forth volley on the subject of intelligent design and science; first an article by Gordy Slack on What neo-creationists get right. Then, evolution advocate Nick Matzke (who was featured in that video I posted yesterday on the Dover School District controversy) replies to Slack’s article in an ...
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