Mixing hydrogen, bicarbonate, and iron-rich magnetite under conditions mimicking #hydrothermal vent results in the formation of a spectrum of #organic molecules.

This is how some key molecules needed to produce life are made from inorganic chemicals, which is essential to understanding a key step in how #life formed on the Earth billions of years ago providung a plausible genesis for the organic molecules that formed ancient cell membranes.

#abiogenesis #astrobiology
https://astrobiology.com/2024/01/the-potential-origins-of-life-in-ancient-hot-springs.html

“It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.”

- Hubert H. Humphrey

In the U.S., recent annual estimates of bird deaths due to:

Cats = 2.4 billion bird deaths

Collisions from building glass = 600 million bird deaths

Land wind turbines = <200,000 bird deaths

Some politicians claim wind turbines “kill all the birds.”

But… they’re not really worried about birds. Rather, they prefer we stick with oil & gas over renewable #energy.

https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/15195/wind-turbines-are-not-killing-fields-for-birds/ #climatechange

BREAKING: Average gas prices in America continue to decline, dropping 30 cents a gallon in two weeks. They've dropped 30% from their summer peak and are down to $3.55 a gallon, the lowest they've been in 9 months.

I look forward to republicans having to find a new boogeyman.

In 1977, NASA began looking for women astronauts.

Sally Ride spotted an ad about it in the Stanford school newspaper & applied. She was one of six women chosen.

In 1983, Ride became the first American woman to travel into #space. Her role as a mission specialist was to work a robotic arm to move satellites.

Ride went on to teach at UC San Diego & worked to promote women & girls in STEM. She also wrote children’s books about exploring space. https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/5-8/features/nasa-knows/who-was-sally-ride-58.html #HistoryRemix