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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.” Read More ›
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Long Story Short — Did Purely Natural Processes Produce Biopolymers?

Science provides a clear expectation of what natural processes produce, and what we observe in the biopolymers of life is dramatically unexpected.  Read More ›
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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. Read More ›
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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. Read More ›
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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. Read More ›

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