since they must be inside an autopoietic system (living cell) to metabolize and survive. No self-bounded autopoietic system smaller than a cell with at least 450 proteins and the genes that code for these proteins has ever been described. Larger thanbacteriaare other autopoietic systems of interm...
Evolution of Earth’s tectonic regime over the past 1.6 Ga. (a) Single lid tectonic indicators, from Stern10. (b) Plate tectonic indicators cumulative plot, modified from Stern14; (c) Simplified climate history, from Stern and Miller28. “Boring Billion” from Holland37; (d) Simplified biol...
Our window looks out across the historic bay full of large tankers, container ships, frigates and a submarine, (the British destroyed a fair bit of the Italian navy here in 1940), with enormous cranes in the docks and plumes of belching smoke from the steelworks. I will not complain about...
There are 724 billionaires in the United States, most of them just over the line of a billion. If you taxed them each a BILLION dollars, reducing most of them to poverty, you would get enough money to run the government until Valentines Day or so. And that’s just this year. What ...
I loved the way that he found himself on the actual spots where historical events occurred and brought them to life by overlaying his imagination on the present world – whether revisiting the destruction of the Temple of Claudius and the massacre of its last veteran inhabitants inside the walls...
The 0.91 m tall, roughly 90 kg 3-A launched carrying a similar hitchhiker as 2-A. Credits: Roger Simmons, National Archives (public domain). Using Transit, a submarine at the surface could locate itself with much better accuracy than leading ground-based, radio navigation systems of that ...
Life is a chemical reaction. Three major transitions in early evolution are considered without recourse to a tree of life. The origin of prokaryotes required a steady supply of energy and electrons, probably in the form of molecular hydrogen stemming fro
" "Into the junk pile will go all artificial dentures, all bridges, plates, partial plates. All men and women of whatever age will be able to have human teeth imbedded inside their gums until the day they die." 19 | Everyone will be a vegetarian....
It is something for the AAP Government to think about when it talks to Narendra Modi: seek to help the aam admi *outside* Delhi if you want to really help the aam admi inside Delhi! In the meantime, try to improve efficiency in the local public goods the local government is supposed ...
When We have a Billion People, you said we were destroying the planet. When We are tried limited our numbers, you said It was human rights abuse. When We were Poor, You think we are dogs. When We Loan you cash, You blame us for your debts. ...