astronomy and chemistry · astrobiology and analytical chemistry
Generating plausible and novel hypotheses about meteorite and soil chemistry from mass-spectrometry data and the astrobiology literature.
Expert novelty and plausibility ratings identify proposals worth examining, but they are not experimental confirmation of the hypotheses.
Open reference source ↗Attempt ledger
A complete attempt outcome does not automatically change the editorial status of the underlying problem.
Eight collaborating agents generated more than 100 hypotheses from meteorite and soil mass-spectrometry data; one astrobiology expert judged 36% plausible and 66% of that subset novel.