Watching #PredatorBadlands is a real treat for #VFX, #CGI and #XenoBiology aficionados, just like #AlienEarth! 😉👍

That new #TheRunningMan movie is also quite entertaining, but it should/could've been a bit more on the nose, for my taste. But what am i complaining about? We're getting the magnificent Lee "Empire" Pace! 👍 (the #IMDb page needs some work; it lacks the Network bossmang actor in the Top Cast section)

#SciFi #Dystopia #Movie

Today, in crazy #SciFi research - reinventing #photosynthesis . This type of Cu–Pd disordered network metamaterials can convert #CO2 into simple organic molecules by interaction with light, but it needs to be rather hot (225–300 °C). Can't but think of the Interesting implication for #xenobiology, in addition to what it can do for matter synthesis.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c05426

How did life get started?

I just read a really cool paper, revisiting a classic origin-of-life experiment. Like Miller and Urey before them, these researchers simulated a tiny pond on ancient earth, and struck it with "lightning."

They confirmed this produces biochemicals, but this time they used advanced microscopy to show it also produces tiny bubbles that look surprisingly lifelike on their own, and could serve as shelters for protolife.

Awesome finding! This really could have been important for life's origins (though, to be properly alive, the protocell would need to be able to make its own vesicle, and divide it). It's a little disheartening, though, as this new evidence makes the search for microbial fossils that much harder.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2413816122

#science #life #biology #cosmology #xenobiology