Origin of Life — Graph — sahil.science

Almanac A Thunderstorm in a Flask

What gas mixture did Stanley Miller use to simulate early Earth's atmosphere, and why?
How did the Miller-Urey result shift the study of the origin of life from philosophy to experimental chemistry?
Why does later uncertainty about early Earth's actual atmospheric composition complicate the experiment's conclusions?

Almanac The Cat He Invented to Mock a Theory

How did Schrödinger's 1944 book What Is Life? influence Francis Crick's move into biology?

Almanac RNA Turns Out to Be Its Own Editor

How did Cech's discovery of self-splicing RNA support the idea of an early 'RNA world'?

Almanac RNA Turns Out to Be an Enzyme Too

Why did finding an RNA enzyme give the RNA world hypothesis its first real experimental support?

Almanac A Rubber Duck, Ten Years Away

What organic molecules did Philae detect during its sixty hours of operation, and why did they matter to origin-of-life questions?

Almanac RNA Learns to Copy Itself

What is the RNA World hypothesis, and what circular problem about proteins and RNA does it try to resolve?
Why has building an RNA molecule that can copy a version of itself proven so experimentally difficult?