What If There Was More Than One Origin of Life?
How life emerged and evolved is often seen as a road that has gone in one direction for 4 billion years. That might not have actually been what happened.
SYFY Wire
Topics: Evolutionary Theory Extraterrestrial Life Origin of Life
Robot Chemist Offers Insight Into the Origins of Life
A robotic ‘evolution machine’ capable of exploring the generational development of chemical mixtures over long periods of time could help cast new light on the origins of life, scientists say.
University of Glasgow News
Topics: Complexity Origin of Life Robots
What Does It Mean To Be Alive?
Science writer Carl Zimmer explores the complicated search for a definition of life.
Science Friday
Topics: Extraterrestrial Life Origin of Life Synthetic Life
When Did Life First Emerge in the Universe?
We don’t know, but we could try to find out by searching for it on planets orbiting the very oldest stars.
Scientific American
Topics: Avi Loeb Origin of Life Planets Stars Universe
How a Building Block of Life Got Created in a Flash
Lightning strikes may have supplied a key ingredient that allowed life to emerge on early Earth, according to a new study of “fossilized” lightning.
NPR
Topics: Origin of Life
Scientists Discover Water, Organic Materials on Surface of Asteroid
For the first time ever, scientists have found elements of life in samples from an actual asteroid.
Futurism
A Scientist Considers Life’s Genesis Through the Physics of Exodus
A review of Jeremy England’s new book, Every Life Is on Fire.
Science
What Alien Life Could Teach Us About Humanity
Have we found extraterrestrial life but not recognized it?
Freethink
Topics: Extraterrestrial Life Origin of Life
DNA Nearly a Billion Years Old Is Being Warped to Figure Out How Life Could Evolve on Other Planets
Betül Kaçar and her team studied what happened when E.coli cells were evolutionarily undone and then had to re-evolve.
SyFy Wire
Topics: Evolutionary Mechanisms Extraterrestrial Life Genetic Engineering Origin of Life Synthetic Life
Searching High and Low for the Origins of Life
Researchers think they’re getting warmer: They’ve created amino acids and primitive membranes by simulating conditions found at scalding vents on the ocean floor.
Knowable Magazine
What Is an Individual? Biology Seeks Clues in Information Theory
To recognize strange extraterrestrial life and solve biological mysteries on this planet, scientists are searching for an objective definition for life’s basic units.
Quanta Magazine
Topics: Evolutionary Theory Extraterrestrial Life Information Origin of Life
What Is Philosophy of Biology?
Watch the interview series.
Closer To Truth
Topics: Consciousness Emergence Evolutionary Theory Origin of Life Wisdom
The Phosphate Problem for the Origin of Life May Be Solved
And it may help us decide whether to search for life on ocean worlds or lake worlds.
Air & Space Magazine
Why Carbon?
Musings on a symphony in C.
Topics: Nature Origin of Life
The Urgency of Agency
Our consciousness gets in the way of thinking about evolution.
Life, Unbounded, Scientific American
Topics: Agency Evolutionary Mechanisms Evolutionary Theory Extraterrestrial Life Origin of Life
What If Life Did Not Originate on Earth?
The Curiosity rover recently discovered methane on Mars, which could be a sign of life. Gary Ruvkun, a molecular biologist and professor of genetics at Harvard, wants to search for DNA in space.
The New Yorker
Topics: Extraterrestrial Life Mars Origin of Life
A Geologist Offers a Melodic Meditation on One of Earth’s Most Abundant Elements
Although organic chemistry is often described as the science of carbon, Robert Hazen’s latest book, Symphony in C, makes clear that this vital element cannot be contained by such a disciplinary boundary.
New NASA Mission Will Fly Titan’s Frigid Skies to Search for Life’s Beginnings
Dragonfly, a nuclear-powered drone, will visit Saturn’s largest moon in the 2030s.
Topics: Extraterrestrial Life Habitability Origin of Life
Life ≠ Alive
A cat is alive, a sofa is not: that much we know. But a sofa is also part of life. Information theory tells us why.
Aeon
Topics: Extraterrestrial Life Information Origin of Life
The New Physics Needed to Probe the Origins of Life
Stuart Kauffman’s provocative take on emergence and evolution energizes Sara Imari Walker.
Nature
Topics: Complexity Origin of Life
Paul Davies on the Origin of Life and the Evolution of Cancer
Physicist Paul Davies is interested in some of the biggest questions that we can ask. What is life? How did the universe begin? How will it end? And are we alone?
The Life Scientific, BBC Radio 4
Topics: Big Bang Extraterrestrial Life Information Origin of Life Paul Davies Science & Religion Dialogue Universe
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