Philip Ball

philipcball.bsky.social

07 October 2026 13:02

It feels very good to have been the editor who handled Soai's 1995 paper in Nature on autocatalytic amplification of an enantiomeric excess - now known as the Soai reaction. This seemed a curiosity at the time, but we clearly made the right call.

FX Coudert

nanoporous.net

07 October 2026 11:49

Honestly the main element of surprise here is that Kagan is still alive

Andrew Bissette

andrewbissette.bsky.social

07 October 2026 09:08

One of the things I really miss about pre-COVID life is being in the Nature office on ChemNobel day. (Largely down to @stuartcantrill.com setting the tone I think?)

Ricard Solé

ricardsole.bsky.social

25 September 2026 10:26

What if the origin of life was not a single transition, but a cascade of them? This paper by J. Aguirre & co offers a systems view of how complexity may have emerged across chemical, informational & ecological levels. @manlius.bsky.social @brionesci.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...