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it’s a comet! it’s a meteor! no, it’s a piece of rna!
What do you get when you take pyrimidine molecules, freeze them in a vacuum to -340°F, then expose them to ultraviolet radiation you’d find in space? Think about it for a second. If you took a few...
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Former science writer John Horgan isn’t happy with the media coverage of Venter’s newest experiment with synthetic genomes and dead cells, and while downplaying what he sees as needless, unwarranted...
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discarding panspermia with insufficient evidence
One of the topics that’s been prominently featured on Weird Things has been panspermia, the hypothesis that life can originate somewhere in the galaxy and spread though asteroid or comet impacts, or...
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it’s a comet! it’s a meteor! no, it’s a piece of rna!
Illustration by Mario Iliev What do you get when you take pyrimidine molecules, freeze them in a vacuum to -340°F, then expose them to ultraviolet radiation you’d find in space? Think about it for a...
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horgan warns venter to watch his poker face
Former science writer John Horgan isn’t happy with the media coverage of Venter’s newest experiment with synthetic genomes and dead cells, and while downplaying what he sees as needless, unwarranted...
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discarding panspermia with insufficient evidence
One of the topics that’s been prominently featured on Weird Things has been panspermia, the hypothesis that life can originate somewhere in the galaxy and spread though asteroid or comet impacts, or...
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