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Chemistry World October 16, 2008 Hayley Birch |
Miller's legacy: new clues to origins of life Scientists have re-examined dried residues in 50-year-old vials from classic 'primordial soup' experiments to glean new information about how life originated on Earth. |
Chemistry World July 2, 2014 Tim Wogan |
Miller's forgotten experiments point to primitive protein genesis Stanley Miller's experiments are still adding to our understanding of prebiotic Earth. |
Chemistry World September 16, 2014 Patrick Walter |
Computer simulations point to formamide as prebiotic intermediate in 'Miller' mixtures Formamide may have played a key role in the genesis of life |
Chemistry World November 2007 Philip Ball |
Column: The Crucible It is inevitable that the origins of life on Earth will be forever shrouded in mystery. |
Chemistry World February 11, 2013 Philip Ball |
A (chemical) potential theory of life's origin This theory says that life arose at hydrothermal vents, not merely because these provide heat and the ingredients for making complex organics but because they create sustained gradients of ion concentration. |
Geotimes November 2004 Jay Chapman |
Impacting the Origin of Life Impact events and meteorite strikes are often associated with mass extinctions and widespread devastation. But, despite this destructive reputation, impact events may have played a role in the evolution of life, according to several new studies. |
Chemistry World October 12, 2015 Andy Extance |
'Chemical search engine' backs alternative route to life A key class of biological molecules neglected in the search for life's chemical origins could have appeared spontaneously before organisms, UK scientists say. |
Chemistry World March 17, 2015 Andy Extance |
Reaction map suggests meteorite chemistry route to life UK chemists have found a reaction network that they believe shows that 'pretty much everyone' working on life's molecular origins is wrong -- but also 'right, in a sense'. |
Chemistry World April 14, 2015 Anthony King |
Chemicals formed on meteorites may have started life on Earth The molecules that kick-started life on primordial Earth could have been made in space and delivered by meteorites, according to researchers in Italy. |
Chemistry World April 8, 2008 Mark Peplow |
Meteorite Source for Life's Handedness Scientists have long speculated that life's preference for left-handed amino acids may have been triggered by compounds brought to Earth by meteorites. Now they've shown exactly how two crucial steps in this process could happen. |
Chemistry World October 26, 2006 Victoria Gill |
Volcanoes Reveal the Secret of the Origin of Life Life began with a chemical reaction under the sea over four billion years ago. That is the claim of a German scientist whose team has recreated a crucial part of the reaction, synthesizing all the necessary ingredients for a living organism. |
Geotimes October 2004 Laura Stafford |
Volcanic gas and early life Researchers have combined carbonyl sulfide with free amino acids in a reaction that created di-, tri- and tetra-peptides. The experiment was conducted under a variety of conditions meant to simulate Earth's early atmosphere. |
Chemistry World December 8, 2008 Hayley Birch |
Meteorites hitting oceans may have kick-started life Japanese scientists have done laboratory experiments to test the idea. |
Chemistry World November 1, 2009 Hayley Birch |
How light gave life a helping hand A new theory for how 'handedness' in organic molecules evolved has been proposed by Dutch scientists. |
Chemistry World September 25, 2014 Simon Hadlington |
First interstellar sighting of a branched alkyl molecule The radiotelescope in Atacama, Chile, has found the first branched molecule ever seen in interstellar space |
Chemistry World September 12, 2010 Mike Brown |
Comet shockwaves helped stimulate life on Earth The shock waves caused as comets hit the early Earth could have helped promote the formation of amino acids and the early building blocks of life, say US researchers. |
Chemistry World November 2007 Simon Hadlington |
Solving an Ancient Puzzle Analytical chemistry is revolutionizing archaeological study - as well as igniting some controversy |
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Chemistry World December 20, 2011 Laura Howes |
Cutting edge chemistry in 2011 With the help of an expert panel of journal editors Chemistry World reviews the ground breaking research and important trends in this year's crop of chemical science papers. |
Chemistry World July 26, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Shortcut Protein Synthesis Ditches Amino Acids Chinese chemists have demonstrated a speedy way to make polypeptides by avoiding the costly tedium of linking together amino acids. |
Chemistry World July 2008 |
Column: The crucible Lemnian Earth was not just a substance dug from the ground; it was prepared in a ritualistic way. |
Chemistry World February 13, 2014 Simon Poulton |
The Earth as a cradle for life This enjoyable book by Stacey and Hodgkinson takes a long-term view of Earth's development as a habitable planet, incorporating physical, chemical and biological processes on the early Earth, to the modern world. |
Chemistry World October 15, 2007 Lewis Brindley |
A Hearty Dose of Garlic? Scientists have discovered why eating garlic is good for the heart: it boosts your natural supply of hydrogen sulphide, relaxing blood vessels and increasing blood flow around the body. |
Chemistry World November 10, 2010 Mike Brown |
Sulfur story unearths oxygen environment Earth's atmosphere could have supported complex life 400 million years earlier than thought, according to sulfur isotope signatures found in some of the oldest rocks on Earth. |
Chemistry World December 10, 2014 Emma Stoye |
Cutting edge chemistry in 2014 Highlights from last year's ground breaking chemical sciences research. |
Chemistry World April 17, 2013 Andy Extance |
Electron flashes catch organics in the act Researchers based in Canada, Germany and Japan have overcome the difficulties of collecting diffraction data on small organic molecules to make atomic-scale recordings of their movement. |
Chemistry World October 14, 2009 James Urquhart |
New route to amino acids US scientists have found a new way of making a class of non-natural amino acids that are widely used as components of pharmaceuticals and chiral catalysts. |
Chemistry World November 23, 2015 Rebecca Trager |
NASA develop 'chemical laptop' for on-the-go analysis Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California have developed a miniaturized on-the-go laboratory that analyses samples for molecules associated with living organisms. |
Chemistry World July 30, 2009 James Urquhart |
Water linked to mantle oxidation US scientists have used an emerging technique to analyse minuscule samples of magma derived from the Earth's mantle in different tectonic environments and discovered a direct link between water content and the oxidation state of iron within the sample. |
Chemistry World August 2, 2011 Phillip Broadwith |
Protein synthesis hijacked to turn out cyclic peptides Japanese researchers have developed a way of reprogramming the genetic code and using bacteria to make and screen huge libraries of cyclic peptides using unnatural amino acids. |
Chemistry World October 8, 2008 Sarah Houlton |
Artificial protein chemistry licensed to industry UK researchers are licensing to industry their method of making artificial proteins by chemically modifying individual amino acid structures. |
Geotimes October 2005 Naomi Lubick |
Moon Soil, Earth Air? Apollo astronauts brought back samples of soil from the moon that contained unexpectedly high levels of nitrogen. New research is shedding light on the anomaly. |
Popular Mechanics December 16, 2008 Matthew Hutson |
5 Projects Ask if Life on Earth Began as Alien Life in Space For years, scientists have considered the possibility of exogenesis, the idea that life arrived on Earth from another planet, and not just the building blocks of life, but organisms that were ready to rock and roll when they arrived. |
Chemistry World June 3, 2015 Katrina Kramer |
Drugged: the science and culture behind psychotropic drugs Richard Miller, a pharmacology researcher at Northwestern University, US, and a medical humanities and bioethics professor, has written his first popular science book on the chemistry and culture of psychoactive compounds. |