biology
Asteroid Hosts All Ingredients for DNA and RNA - Eos
https://eos.org/articles/asteroid-hosts-all-ingredients-for-dna-and-rna
Samples collected from asteroid Ryugu contain the four genetic “letters” of DNA, reinforcing the hypothesis that the chemical origins of life were present when…
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Katherine Rundell · Consider the Greenland Shark
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n09/katherine-rundell/consider-the-greenland-shark
I am glad not to be a Greenland shark; I don’t have enough thoughts to fill five hundred years. But I find the very...
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Why are there no fish in the deepest deep sea? | Deep Sea News
https://deepseanews.com/2015/08/why-are-there-no-fish-in-the-deepest-deep-sea/
Here’s a mystery: below 8,400 meters there are no fish. There are other creatures: sea cucumbers, anemones, tiny worms, but no one has ever seen a fish. At 8,370 meters? There are fish. But not below 8,400 meters. At its deepest the ocean reaches roughly 11,000 meters, so there is plenty of space. And right below 8,400
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