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2020

Europa’s salts on the surface may be an indicator of hydrothermal activities within the sub surface ocean

Shuya Tan, Yasuhito Sekine et al., Icarus, 2020

December 22, 2020

Exploring the Organic Chemistry that Geology will allow at Hydrothermal Conditions

Kristin Johnson-Finn et al., ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, 2020

December 21, 2020

Artificial Intelligence Finds Surprising Patterns in Earth’s Biological Mass Extinctions

J. F. Hoyal Cuthill, N. Guttenberg et al., Nature, 2020

December 10, 2020

Scientists Discover New Organic Compounds That Could Have Helped Form the First Cells

Tony Z. Jia, Irena Mamajanov, H. James Cleaves and others published a paper in Scientific Reports

October 29, 2020

New study shows how complex metabolism may have self-assembled from simple precursors

Sebastian Sanden, Ruiqin Yi, Masahiko Hara and Shawn McGlynn published a paper in Chemical Communications

October 19, 2020

Mythical origins of the actin cytoskeleton

Caner Akıl and others published a paper in Current Opinion in Cell

October 16, 2020

DNA-peptide interactions create complex behaviours which may have helped shape biology

T.P. Fraccia and Tony Z. Jia published a paper in ACS Nano

October 14, 2020

Study discovers process that may have produced first organic molecules for life on Earth

Shawn McGlynn, Ryuhei Nakamura and others published a paper in PNAS

October 07, 2020

Late accretion to Mercury: A process of delivery of exogenic materials to Mercury

Ryuki Hyodo, Hidenori Genda and Ramon Brasser published a paper in Icarus

October 06, 2020