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abiogenesis

  1. essentialsaltes

    Scientists get closer to solving chemical puzzle of the origin of life - synthesis of pantetheine

    People have long scratched their heads trying to understand how life ever got going after the formation of Earth billions of years ago. Now, chemists have partly unlocked the recipe by creating a complex compound essential to all life — in a lab. The pathway, which has evaded scientists for...
  2. Occams Barber

    Thoughts on Abiogenesis

    Thoughts on Abiogenesis Abiogenesis is the process whereby life first came into existence from non-life. Along with the beginning of the Universe (aka The Big Bang) and evolution, it’s one of the three processes which make up the scientific version of what fundamentalist Christians refer to as...
  3. F

    Scientists Create Self-Replicating Chemicals to Help Explain the Origins of Life

    "An enduring question about how we got here is how a vat of primordial chemicals might have turned into life. Now, scientists are attempting to pull it off themselves. A few years ago, chemists at Harvard University made some intriguing progress. By mixing together some water and a few basic...
  4. LaraLara

    Is life realy nothing special?

    Attention title misnomer: the treat is about the existence of life (and indirectly fine tuning). There is an argument here that I am trying to understand which claims we we should not wonder that life exists because that is not anything less improbable that that a tornado exists. Judging from...
  5. Radrook

    On the Origin of Life - An Interview with Dr. Dean Kenyon

    On the Origin of Life - An Interview with Dr. Dean Kenyon