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Did cosmic rays cause right-handed DNA?

At Quanta: Many researchers believe the selection to be random: Those right-handed genetic strands just happened to pop up first, or in slightly greater numbers. But for more than a century, some have pondered whether biology’s innate handedness has deeper roots. Read More ›

Stanford: Cosmic rays helped create chirality in early life. Rob Sheldon responds

Sheldon: Sabine Hossenfelder has said that particle physicists are “lost in math,” > trained to play with "beautiful" equations rather than actual physics. Here we have a similar example in astrophysics. Roger makes one unsupported assumption after another, leading to an effect so small as to "need amplification." Read More ›