What kicked off early life on earth? Organic chemistry and early life need the right minerals to be present and accessible. What helped unlock early minerals on earth like phosphorous to kick start life? Lightning strikes seem rare, but they're much more frequent than meteorites. Early life on Earth could have been helped along through lightning strikes and meteorites. DNA, RNA and Proteins are locked in a complex dance, but which came first. DNA can't replicate without the help of protein and RNA, so how did we develop DNA in the first place? Is it possible for RNA to replicate on it's own?
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Episode 298 - Self healing materials, scratch tests and the crockmeter
Episode 297 - Antibiotic superweapons - hunter killer cells, dream teams and evolutionary history
Lagrange Point Episode 296 - Fighting back against hayfever, what histamines do for you, stopping travellers sickness
Episode 295 - Powerful and precise Lasers - Nobel Prize in Physics '18
Episode 294 - What is the biggest bird; Island Giants and dwarfs.
Episode 293 - Finding a fly in you drink, plus placebos on the brain - Ignobel Prize '18 Part 2
Episode 292 - Roller coasters for medical treatment - Ignobel Prize 2018 Part 1
Episode 291 - Concussion science, assessment frameworks and biomarkers
Episode 290 - The strange chemistry of exoplanets from their cores to atmospheres
Episode 289 - Unlikely alliances, from ancient virus and Koalas to farming fruit flies and coral alliances
Episode 288 - Tackling Fatbergs, Recycling Li-On_batteries and new uses for cooking oil
Episode 287 - Fighting back against fungal infections
Episode 286 - Fields Medal 2018 - Solving problems in mathematics with tricks from other fields
Episode 285 - Icey lakes on Mars, a planets worth of dust and unexplained oxygen
Episode 284 - Solar panels that work in the shade, using coal waste and greener concrete
Episode 283 - Dust storms carrying life, harming life and engulfing a planet
Episode 282 - More precise precision medicine plus last chance medications
Episode 281 - Interconnections between animals, ocean currents, climates and ecosystems
Episode 280 - Nanodiamonds, Stardust, Comets and erasing Stars
Episode 279 - Helping farmers fight back against climate change
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