The full text of the “umbilical dirt” paper (cited at the end of the WaPo article) is freely available.
The full text of the “umbilical dirt” paper (cited at the end of the WaPo article) is freely available.
That’s the first thing I thought of when I saw this.
So, I grew up Catholic, and a few of those symbols do look kind of similar to things I’d see in church, etc., they’re also different enough to make me think it’s probably just coincidental. That being said, it’s been decades since I’ve been a practicing Catholic, and I suppose it’s always possible that these are someone’s personal/artistic renditions of “official” symbols.
They’re harmless, neat things
Or, if you’re an entomophobe, TREE HORROR.
Here’s a paper about self-replicating proteins, and this one is about self-replicating clay crystal structures, and how they might have been catalysts for biomolecule synthesis.
Yeah – if there’s a fire or some other kind of emergency at your house/apartment and you’re not there, that kind of sticker is really important.