The origin of the first living molecules on our planet has long been debated. However, recent experiments are revealing new ...

Our planet is unique for its ability to sustain abundant life. From studies of the rock record, scientists believe life had ...

“Microlightning” exchanges among water droplets could have sparked the building blocks of life on ancient Earth, new research finds. Here, a wave breaks on White Sand Beach on the Thai island of Koh ...

The origin of life is surely one of the most important questions in biology. How did inanimate molecules give rise to the ...

Researchers report that frozen hydrogen cyanide crystals can enable highly reactive chemistry at low temperatures.

Deep-sea sediment layers show rare microbial wrinkle structures that formed in environments far beyond the reach of sunlight. Dr. Rowan Martindale, a paleoecologist and geobiologist at the University ...

New experiments suggest RNA, life’s essential molecule, could have formed naturally on early Earth and even arrived from space, raising intriguing questions about how easily life might begin elsewhere ...

Researchers in the field of synthetic biology are still a long way from being able to assemble living cells from scratch in the laboratory. But according to biochemist David Deamer of the University ...

Challenging long-held assumptions, Aarhus University researchers have demonstrated that the protein building blocks essential ...

In the 1931 movie “Frankenstein,” Dr. Henry Frankenstein howling his triumph was an electrifying moment in more ways than one. As massive bolts of lightning and energy crackled, Frankenstein’s monster ...