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Miracle of the Cell
Miracle of the Cell
Image credit: Brian Gage.

The Simple Life: Abiogenesis Gets Another Reality Check

When it comes to biological life, even the simplest single-celled organism is an astonishingly complex multi-part system. Read More ›
flask
Photo credit: PhotoCave, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

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 ›
toxic waste
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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 ›
Airgas
Photo: Airgas delivers its products, by Dwight Burdette, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

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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