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A collection of links to interesting articl;es on the origin of life and other things, updated as and when I come across them. Start of the Universe https://www.edge.org/conversation/alan_guth-the-inflationary-universe   Building blocks of life In their paper published in the journal Nature Chemistry, the team describes how they were able to map reactions that produced two and three-carbon sugars, amino acids, ribonucleotides and glycerol—the material necessary for metabolism and for creating the building blocks of proteins and ribonucleic acid molecules and also for allowing for the creation of lipids that form cell membranes. In their paper published in the journal Nature Chemistry , the team describes how they were able to map reactions that produced two and three-carbon sugars, amino acids, ribonucleotides and glycerol—the material necessary for metabolism and for creating the building blocks of proteins and ribonucleic acid molecules and also for allowing for the