Super cool, and I bet housekeeping loved tidying up after turning a motel room into a street biology lab. Honestly, I think I’d prefer to stay in a room previously used to cook meth.
Jugs of brackish water lined the walls. Buckets overflowed with hunks of marsh grass.
I don’t know, that goes a little above and beyond IMO. One typically doesn’t do science in a house-type setting, for many of the same reasons you don’t carpet a bathroom.
Non-paywall: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/science/motel-science-dis...
https://archive.is/2026.09.26-101638/https://www.nytimes.com...
non-paywall (perm): https://archive.ph/QpBF1
Super cool, and I bet housekeeping loved tidying up after turning a motel room into a street biology lab. Honestly, I think I’d prefer to stay in a room previously used to cook meth.
You think pond water is the worst thing an $80 motel room has seen?
I don’t know, that goes a little above and beyond IMO. One typically doesn’t do science in a house-type setting, for many of the same reasons you don’t carpet a bathroom.
For some reason this is a commonplace in the UK.
Yeah....
"Origins of life" is a bit of an overstatement, leading to a pernicious paywall.
TLDR version: organelles called chloroplasts apparently evolved twice. Scientists investigating this reduced to working in cheap rented room.