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Showing posts with label Dr. James Tour. Show all posts

Sunday, August 9, 2026

"Scientists Are Clueless on the Origin of Life" — A Synthetic Chemist Explains

A synthetic chemist's blunt assessment: we have no idea where life came from, and we're not getting closer. The "warm little pond" model traces back to the Babylonians, not Darwin — and the hydrothermal-vent alternative doesn't survive contact with the actual chemistry.

 

Thursday, July 23, 2026

Did Scientists Just Create Life? The Conversations Team Dissects SpudCell

Scientists say SpudCell can grow and replicate like a natural cell—but did they actually create life? Dr. James Tour and the Conversations team examine the research in detail, separating its remarkable engineering from the headlines and asking whether constant feeding, borrowed biological machinery, and mechanically forced division truly constitute a living cell.