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Thursday, April 24, 2025

Earliest Evidence of Life: 3.49 Billion Year-Old Microbial Mats

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  Weighing The Other Evidence Roughly a billion years after planet Earth's formation, complex microbial communities were already thrivin...
Saturday, January 18, 2025

Nucleobases Found In Meteorites And Their Implications For Astrobiology

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  Nucleobases And The Origin Of Life Meteorites are fragments of space rock that found their way to Earth. Around 70% of them originated fro...
Thursday, September 26, 2024

Book Review: "Systems Approach To Astrobiology" By Benton C. Clark & Vera M. Kolb

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       I have just finished reading this wonderful book on astrobiology. It's not a long read, but some of the language is a little tech...
Tuesday, August 13, 2024

In An RNA World: Why RNA Or An RNA-Like Nucleic Acid Is Such A Popular Candidate For The Origin Of Life

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  A Divided Puzzle The origin of life remains a puzzle, and may always be that way in the sense that we won't ever completely understand...
Wednesday, May 29, 2024

Building Artificial Life: An Introductory Overview Of Synthetic Biology

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  What Is Synthetic Biology?  While origin of life research generally pertains to figuring out the pathways of chemical systems that produce...
Tuesday, April 9, 2024

The Genomic Imprint of Evolution

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  Over a century ago, scientists relied on physical and anatomical evidence for the reconstruction of the evolutionary past, namely in the f...
Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Worlds Beyond: The Search For Other Life In The Cosmos

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  Astrobiology, Geobiology, and Life Beyond  The field of Astrobiology is concerned with finding biology on other planets or other solid bod...