TagsTagsThe 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 ...
Scientists studying the human genome, with the help of massively parallel arrays of supercomputers, are uncovering a world of information that is far more complex than anyone dreamed—and far more mysterious: Now - The Rest of the Genome. Over the summer, Sonja Prohaska decided to try an experiment. She would ...
The website of Boston’s Museum of Science has a fascinating “virtual exhibit” titled Exploring Life’s Origins, with excellent graphics, lucid explanations, and cool animations of ribozymes and protocells and other totally geeked out subjects. (Hat tip: Panda’s Thumb.)