Royal Society Publishing has recently published an OPEN ACCESS theme issue of Philosophical Transactions A: Planetary Protection for sustainable space exploration compiled and edited by Karen Olsson-Francis, Athena Coustenis, Peter […]
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Rethinking Planetary Protection: An Island Biogeographical Analysis
We reconsider the problem of planetary protection using, by the analogy of planets as islands, the theory of island biogeography.
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Amino Acid Analogues Provide Multiple Plausible Pathways To Prebiotic Peptides
Prebiotic peptide synthesis has consistently been a prominent topic within the field of the origin of life.