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Podcast: The DemystifySci Podcast
Episode: Creating Aliens in a Lab - Dr. Lee Cronin, University of Glasglow
Description: Professor Lee Cronin is an organic chemist, but he isn't just interested in the usual research path of describing new chemicals, though he does do that - he's interested in understanding the fundamental principles of chemistry, and how they can be used for the search for life on other planets... and for the creation of life, de novo, on our own. Â Â
And that's tricky, because the origin of life is one of those contentious theories where the truth of what happened here on Earth will never be fully known. Instead, people like Lee Cronin are going to ha...