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Scientists make life with lasers
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Scientists make life with lasers
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Lasers simulate asteroid and comet impacts and create the
building blocks of DNA - in a lab!
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Ironic that this post appears alongside a report that "Universities [are] guilty of sexing up science." Claiming production of life when in fact only traces of nucleobases (not even nucleosides or necleotides, let alone a strand of RNA or a functioning organism) were produced is about as much "sexed up" as it gets. This very interesting paper, whose title, "High-energy chemistry of formamide: a unified mechanism of nulceobase formation," is very honest to its content, is somehow transformed into "Scientists make life with lasers!"
Come on!
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