Latest Origin of life Stories

Healthier Choices and a Bit of Prep Can Reduce Carcinogens and Increase Flavor WASHINGTON, May 6, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In time for the start of grilling season, experts at the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR), an organization that studies the impact of lifestyle on cancer risk, issued a warning about the hidden health hazards of cookouts and campfires. "Research now shows that diets high in red and processed meat increase risk for colon cancer," said AICR...

Research from the 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI) looked at the effects of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) exposure on a sample of children in Fresno, California. SAN ANTONIO, TX (PRWEB) February 23, 2013 Outside air pollutants are a known trigger of asthma, the most common chronic disease in children according to the World Health Organization, but whether these pollutants actually cause new cases of asthma is still being...

Residents living near an e-waste recycling site in China face elevated risks of lung cancer, according to a recent study co-authored by Oregon State University researchers. Electronic trash, such as cell phones, computers and TVs, is often collected in dumps in developing countries and crudely incinerated to recover precious metals, including silver, gold, palladium and copper. The process is often primitive, releasing fumes with a range of toxic substances, including polycyclic aromatic...

In his new book, Engineering Physicist Daniel Friedmann shares his unique formula for converting ‘Bible Time’ to Gregorian years. Poised to provide compelling answers to the timeline aspects of the on-going Creation vs. Evolution debate, could the author’s new book be the answer both sides are fighting for? New York, New York (PRWEB) January 21, 2013 A new book by North American Physics Engineer, Daniel Friedmann, could be about to settle long-held differences between devotees to...

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Symbiotic relationship between pollutants and airborne particles explains how city pollution ends up in Arctic Pollution from fossil fuel burning and forest fires reaches all the way to the Arctic, even though it should decay long before it travels that far. Now, lab research can explain how pollution makes its lofty journey: rather than ride on the surface of airborne particles, pollutants snuggle inside, protected from the elements on the way....

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Astronomers have provided more evidence that life was delivered to Earth through collisions with objects like asteroids. Researchers presented a paper at the European Planetary Sciences Congress on Tuesday, showing microorganisms that crashed to Earth might have been what sparked life. The astronomers report under certain conditions there is a high probability that life came to Earth during the Solar System's infancy when Earth...

Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online In an effort to better understand how life started on Earth, researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California are cooking up icy concoctions of organisms (carbon-bearing molecules) then zapping them with lasers. The JPL crew’s experiments also provide the first direct look at the organic chemistry that takes place in the chilly regions of our solar system, and even chillier reaches between stars....

Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Americans like to celebrate their freedom to believe in anything they want, from paranormal activity to ancient aliens, but educational presenter Bill Nye said the belief in creationism should end with the current generation in a recent web video for Big Think. “So, once in a while I get people that really — or that claim — they don't believe in evolution,” Nye said. “And my response generally is 'Well, why not? Really, why...

Roofers and road construction workers who use hot asphalt are exposed to high levels of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). A University of Colorado Cancer Center study published this week in the British Medical Journal Open shows that roofers have higher PAH blood-levels after a shift than before and that these high levels of PAHs are linked with increased rates of DNA damage, and potentially with higher cancer risk. “We’ve known for some time that roofers and road workers have...

GREENBELT, Md., July 25, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Researchers analyzing meteorite fragments that fell on a frozen lake in Canada have developed an explanation for the origin of life's handedness - why living things only use molecules with specific orientations. The work also gave the strongest evidence to date that liquid water inside an asteroid leads to a strong preference of left-handed over right-handed forms of some common protein amino acids in meteorites. The result...