Can Ice Build Life?

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Can a freezer make life? A recent paper in Chemical Science suggests that freezing and thawing may have helped early “protocells” grow, merge, and trap DNA.1 But the key issue is not whether ice can move molecules around—it’s whether blind physical cycles can build the coded, regulated systems life requires. The evidence shows that ice can sort preexisting parts, but it cannot engineer life.

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