A tenuous consensus has developed about what origin of life researchers are looking for. If you would try to really boil it down, most people will agree that a living thing has like a small sort of short list of properties. It can hold itself together like it doesn't just fall apart. Life probably has some kind of a metabolism. And then finally there's basic life cell property number three.

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