Rocks. Science. Life.

Now that I have graduated and lost the free access to journals, reading lists from my lectures, and general academic buzz and osmosis of knowledge that comes with being in a university building, I am finding that its much harder to stay up to date with the going on of the scientific world. Nonetheless, I think it's so so important to stay in the loop. Knowledge is power and just as you're always told to stay up to date with the political or social news of the world, staying u

Anyone that knows me, or has read any of this blog, knows that the origins of life on Earth, and the subsequent impacts for the potential for the origins of life on other planets, is somewhat of my Roman Empire. So naturally, when I came across an article on this study from the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge I was intrigued to know more. The paper, "A small polymerase ribozyme that can synthesise itself and its complimentary strand (Gianni et al., 2026)", w

I'm not sure if I've mentioned it on here before but during my time at uni I've worked as a tutor to earn some money during my studies. I've been tutoring students in A-Level and general Pre-Uni level geology helping to prepare them for Earth and Natural Science Oxbridge applications. Earlier this week I was planning out one of those sessions about the geologic timescale and it reminded me that actually before uni I was slightly baffled by what the geologic timescale is, wha