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Cosmic Rays and the Handedness of Life

Share this on WhatsApp Scientists have pondered a mystery about life for at least a century: Many biological molecules come in two mirror-image versions, just like human hands; in fact, they’re known as “right-handed” and “left-handed.” Natural chemical reactions produce approximately equal numbers of both types of molecule. But the sugars and amino acids that […]

What if We Could Live for a Million Years?

Share this on WhatsApp Recently, scientists discovered bacteria that had been buried beneath the ocean floor for more than a hundred million years and was still alive. What would change if we could live for even just a million years? Two thoughts immediately come to mind. First, tenure in academia would have to be capped. […]

Invisible Ether Evolved with Time

Share this on WhatsApp Originally published in November 1904 Credit: Scientific American Advertisement “Miss Agnes Clerke writes in Knowledge, ‘The glory of the heavens is transitory, but the impalpable, invisible ether inconceivably remains. Such as it is today, it already was when the Fiat Lux was spoken; its beginning must have been coeval with that […]