Does Enceladus’ alkaline ocean make it friendly to life?
Recent data sent back to us by the Cassini space probe as it samples the geyser water being shot into
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Book Review: “The Vital Question”
Nick Lane’s book, “The Vital Question”,tackles some of the toughest questions in biology today, such as the how, and in what environments, life originated, how the complex eukaryotic cell evolved, how the cellular mechanisms to generate energy echo back to the days before biology, and why sexual reproduction is the way it is based constraints placed on us by our energy generating systems -the mitochondria.
Entropy as an engine of life’s origins
If Professor Jeremy England is right, then far from The Second Law of Thermodynamics being a repressor of complexity, it may more accurately be described as an engine of the spontaneous production of organization, complex systems, and life itself.
EMMA knows the secrets of your past – but will she tell?:
To paraphrase Jane Austin, when referring to the RNA that lays hidden at the core of many of our most rudimentary metabolic processes, which may have served a grander role in a far distant past, and which now has relinquished it’s primary role for one of a more modest, behind the scenes assistant, “The sweetest and best of all molecules, faultless in spite of all her faults”.
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Musings on the biochemistry on Saturn’s moon Titan. Part I
In Part I of this article we’ll look at the major difficulties that a life form on Titan would have to face and overcome in order to exist and survive.
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Origins Sunday: Evolution of life’s first proteins
Check the link below for some cool research in the origin of life on earth!!Evidence of key ingredient during the dawn of life
Why the Horta would not have looked like a rock monster
Why the Horta would not have looked like a rock monster. By Rich Feldenberg In the original Star
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