Tag: Chemistry
Scientist reproduces Shroud of Turin
Philip Pullella (Rome; Reuters) October 5, 2009.
Print: The Globe & Mail (Reuters)
An Italian professor of organic chemistry (Luigi Garlaschelli) has found further proof that the Shroud of Turin is a fake. He was funded by an Italian association of atheists and agnostics but said it had no effect on his results. “Money has no odour,” he said. “This was done scientifically. If the Church wants to fund me in the future, here I am.”
Chemist Shows How RNA Can Be the Starting Point for Life
By NICHOLAS WADE May 14, 2009.
Print: New York Times
A chemist discovers a plausible pathway for RNA nucleotides to have formed from inorganic chemicals, thus outlining how life may have chemically started.
