How did life get started on Earth? And how are we using what we know to look for it throughout the galaxy?

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Credits:
Executive Producers:
George Zaidan
Hilary Hudson

Producers:
Elaine Seward
Andrew Sobey

Writer/Host:
Sam Jones, PhD

Scientific consultants:
Michelle Boucher, PhD
Jason Dworkin, PhD
Lelia Duman, PhD
Nicholas Hud, PhD

Sources:
Phosphine gas in the cloud decks of Venus
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4155...

Habitable zones of different stars
https://www.nasa.gov/ames/kepler/habi...

The Habitable Zone
https://www.planetary.org/articles/wh....

Protein Synthesis and the Genetic Code
https://chem.libretexts.org/Courses/E....

Early life on earth
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20...

Phosphate backbone
https://www.nature.com/scitable/defin...

Phosphodiester Bond
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/...

Primordial soup
https://www.popularmechanics.com/scie...

Life on Venus? The picture gets cloudier
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/08/sc...

A Biologist Explains: What is Life?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jvchamar...

Alternative Definitions of Life: Perspective Matters
https://www.sfu.ca/colloquium/PDC_Top....

The Seven Pillars of Life
https://science.sciencemag.org/conten...

Darwinian Evolution
https://www.livescience.com/474-contr...

Water on Mars
https://www.space.com/8642-flashback-...

Life on other planets?
https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/faq/5/is-...

Exoplanet atmospheres
https://www.physics.uu.se/research/as....

Hubble versus James Webb Telescope
https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/content/abo...

Ingredients for life in space
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/eight-...

Habitability on Mars from a Microbial Point of View
https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr...

Vocabulary of Definitions of Life Suggests a Definition
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/1...

Goddard Media Studios--transit spectroscopy
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11428

Phosphine gas found in Venus’ atmosphere may be ‘a possible sign of life’
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/p....

NASA definition of life
https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/researc....

Meteoritic Amino Acids: Diversity in Compositions Reflects Parent Body Histories
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsc...

A search for amino acids and nucleobases in the Martian meteorite Roberts Massif 04262 using liquid chromatography‐mass spectrometry
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/f...

The 1953 Stanley L. Miller Experiment: Fifty Years of Prebiotic Organic Chemistry
https://link.springer.com/article/10....

Prebiotic Soup--Revisiting the Miller Experiment
https://science.sciencemag.org/conten...

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