Chemistry is helping us figure out how life got started on Earth and is giving us molecules to look for on other planets. In this episode of Reactions, we break down what “life” is and how likely we are to find it out in the cosmos.
Sources:
- Phosphine gas in the cloud decks of Venus
- Habitable zones of different stars
- The Habitable Zone
- Protein Synthesis and the Genetic Code
- Early life on earth
- Phosphate backbone
- Phosphodiester Bond
- Primordial soup
- Life on Venus? The picture gets cloudier
- A Biologist Explains: What is Life?
- The Seven Pillars of Life
- Darwinian Evolution
- Water on Mars
- Life on other planets?
- Hubble versus James Webb Telescope
- Ingredients for life in space
- Habitability on Mars from a Microbial Point of View
- Vocabulary of Definitions of Life Suggests a Definition
- Goddard Media Studios--transit spectroscopy
- Phosphine gas found in Venus’ atmosphere may be ‘a possible sign of life’
- NASA definition of life
- Meteoritic Amino Acids: Diversity in Compositions Reflects Parent Body Histories
- A search for amino acids and nucleobases in the Martian meteorite Roberts Massif 04262 using liquid chromatography‐mass spectrometry
- The 1953 Stanley L. Miller Experiment: Fifty Years of Prebiotic Organic Chemistry
- Prebiotic Soup--Revisiting the Miller Experiment
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