Did coenzymes help kickstart life? Scientists make one from common organic compounds on the early Earth. washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

So sorry to hear of the passing of Frans de Waal!

If you like world music and American folk, this is wonderful Himalayan Highway - Sweet Nell/ Bajho Khetma youtu.be/yKFDHF51tfI?fe… via YouTube

So sorry to hear this! via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2024/03/27/bus…

A cell photographed through a microscope. DNA in the nucleus, the Golgi apparatus, and actin filaments are shown. The changing collors show how color-choice can emphasize (or hide) details in the image. We do not see all colors equally as well. #CellBiology

A fascinating hint that DNA repair might be involved in the formation of long-term memories.

Fine Scientific American piece about the fascinating stuff beginning to be found inside the sample of asteroid Bennu that NASA brought back to Earth a couple years ago. scientificamerican.com/article/nasas-…

A great article. nytimes.com/2024/04/01/opi…

Really looking forward to this conversation with Peculiar Book Club! Apr 11th, 7 EST youtube.com/live/LKWCLlLQC…

How Gulf princes, the safari industry, and conservation groups are displacing the Maasai from the last of their Serengeti homeland theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

A "time-lapse" of a developing neuron hand-drawn by Santiago Ramón Y Cajal while he was looking through his microscope. #CellBiologiy

Wow.

After months of gibberish transmissions, Voyager 1 is finally communicating clearly again & I love how invested we are in this distant, 46-year-old spacecraft 😍 scientificamerican.com/article/after-… by Meghan Bartels on Scientific American

This tortoise understood it can go much faster with the help of a vehicle: it also learned how to make effective turns. [📹 Mh0MLiErcV8E97C]

Previously unseen details of human brain structure revealed. Featured image: a single neuron with ~5,600 of the nerve fibers that connect to it. I feel overwhelming awe at nature's complexity and order. nih.gov/news-events/ni…

Trying to figure out if I would ever want to use one of these. :-)

No way 🐊

Thrilled to see this!

I'm thrilled to see an edition of "What's Gotten Into You" in Portuguese!

I'm thrilled to become a PAPERBACK writer: My book, a mind-bending journey of our atoms from the Big Bang to now is out today. It’s a lighter portable version of a book Simon Winchester calls “truly astonishing and eminently readable.” danlevitt.com/books/whats-go… #science #books