Roundup of studies on comets, sea ice and mummy wine
Original title: People Used to Drink Wine Made From Ground-Up Mummies. Now, Scientists Are Studying It
A Cambridge team’s simulations argue cometary delivery of prebiotic molecules was rare on early Earth but more plausible on Mars.
404 Media’s Abstract roundup covers recent papers that are not cybersecurity or AI security news. A Scientific Reports study of more than 100,000 comet-impact simulations concludes fragile organics were usually destroyed and that successful delivery was exceedingly rare. A separate paper models sea ice on Hycean and ocean worlds as a possible site for concentrated prebiotic chemistry. The column also describes historical Mumia vera aegyptiaca, a medieval drink made from ground Egyptian mummies.
- Researchers led by Richard Anslow are at the University of Cambridge.
- They place successful cometary delivery more than 100 million years before LUCA.
- Edouard Barrier’s team models sea ice on sub-Neptune ocean worlds.
- Mumia vera circulated in Arabic and European markets for centuries.
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In a new study perfectly timed for Halloween, scientists dug into the chemical properties of a once-popular beverage with purported medicinal benefits: wine made with ground-up Egyptian mummies.
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