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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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An illustration of the viscous “primordial soup" that could have fostered the first self-replicating strands of DNA, heated and cooled as the Earth moved between day and night 4 billion year sago. (Christine He/Georgia Tech)Scientists may have discovered how precursors to the present-day genetic code first duplicated themselves before the existence of enzymes that are indispensable to that process today. The "easy" solution could have actually happened in a messy puddle billions of years ago.
