lifes

Life is a journey, and the more years we spend “traveling”, the bigger our baggage of life lessons gets. Needless to say, after decades on this earth, it can become quite hefty, but that’s what makes it a great source of ideas, tips, and inspiration for other voyagers out there.Atlanta-based fractional sales executive Louie Bernstein recently discussed his experiences on the ‘Life Hacks’ subreddit; but instead of delving deeper into the subtleties of successful sales strategies, he chose to share the life lessons he’s…

By Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA) March 9, 2024The perplexing phenomenon of homochirality in life, where biomolecules exist in only one of two mirror-image forms, remains unexplained despite historical attention from scientific figures like Pasteur, Lord Kelvin, and Pierre Curie. Recent research suggests the combination of electric and magnetic fields might influence this preference through experiments showing enantioselective effects on chiral molecules interacting with magnetized…

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers discovered water and organic molecules in a planet-forming disk around a young star in an extreme environment, revealing that Earth-like planets could form even under harsh conditions. (Artist’s concept.) Credit: SciTechDaily.comPlanets like our Earth, including planets with water, could form even in the harshest known star-forming environments, drenched by hard UV light from massive stars. That is the main result of analyses of new observations of such an environment with…

Darius Rucker has turned the soundtrack of his life into a book. The country musician has announced his first memoir, Life’s Too Short, set for release on May 28, structured around 23 songs that have been transformative during his career. “This book is the story of my life as told through 23 songs that took me away, soaring, starting at ground level, living in a poor but happy home, never wanting for much more, enjoying what I had, even when times got tough, because I had my escape, my refuge, my music,” Rucker…

New research shows that life can thrive in much saltier conditions than known before, expanding the potential habitats for life in our solar system and providing crucial insights into the effects of salinity on Earth’s aquatic life. Credit: SciTechDaily.comNew Research on Microbes Expands the Known Limits for LifeA new study on microbes in extremely salty water suggests life may survive conditions previously thought to be uninhabitable. The research widens the possibilities for where life may be found throughout our solar…

Encased inside some of the oldest rocks on Earth are previously overlooked nanocrystals that tell a story about how life might have emerged.Earth scientists at the University of Western Australia and the University of Cambridge say their findings could explain why phosphorus became a major building block of life and how molecules first clicked together to form primitive RNA at hydrothermal vents on the seafloor.They examined 3.5-billion-year-old rocks from the Pilbara region of Western Australia under a transmission…

Locality map and stratigraphic column, North Pole Dome. Credit: Science Advances (2024). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adj4789 Researchers from The University of Western Australia examined 3.5 billion-year-old hydrothermal vent sediments and discovered clues about the origin and early evolution of life. The study, by Professor Birger Rasmussen and Dr. Janet Muhling, from…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeIt’s bad business to have released Alexander Payne’s mournful holiday comedy, The Holdovers, several weeks after Christmas has ended. It’s not only a film about the season, but about its vivid, fleeting emotions – a Hallmark card vision of snowy, Seventies New England gives way to the loneliness of feeling moored in your own familiar comforts.Payne’s return behind the camera follows…

New research explores how amyloids, capable of forming under early Earth conditions and binding with RNA and DNA, may have played a key role in life’s emergence by increasing molecular stability and encouraging cooperation over competition.The question of how living organisms emerged from non-living matter remains one of the most profound mysteries in science. Despite numerous theories, a conclusive explanation remains elusive. This is hardly unexpected, considering these events occurred three to four billion years ago,…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeThe marketing materials for Holocaust film One Life, starring Anthony Hopkins, are being updated amid backlash to the lack of references to Jewish people.The biopic follows the incredible true story of how Nicolas Winton, remembered as the “British Schindler”, saved the lives of 669 Jewish children during World War II.According to Variety, the film’s promo material was criticised…