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Research Highlights

2020

Small enzyme-mimicking polymers may have helped start life

Irena Mamajanov, Melina Caudan and Tony Z. Jia published a paper in Life

August 20, 2020

Scientists provide new explanation for the far side of the Moon’s strange asymmetry

Matthieu Laneuville and others published a paper in Nature Geoscience

June 22, 2020

New research shows how complex chemistry may be relevant to origins of life on Earth

Ruiqin Yi, James Cleaves, Albert Fahrenbach and others published a paper in PNAS

June 08, 2020

A larger habitable zone for complex life

Ramses Ramirez published a paper in Scientific Reports

May 07, 2020

Four-billion-year-old nitrogen-containing organic molecules discovered in Martian meteorites

Atsuko Kobayashi, Tomohiro Usui and others published a paper in Nature Communications

April 29, 2020

New study reveals life’s earliest evolution was more complicated than previously suspected

S.J. Berkemer and Shawn McGlynn published a paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution

April 27, 2020

Mysteries of Uranus’ oddities explained by Japanese astronomers

Shigeru Ida and others published a paper in Nature Astronomy

April 06, 2020

The effect of high nitrogen pressures on the habitable zone and an appraisal of greenhouse states

Ramses Ramirez published a paper in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

April 01, 2020

Connecting all phases of biological phase separation to catalyse the next phase of research

Tony Z. Jia and others published a paper in Biophysical Reviews

March 26, 2020