This video explores why the origin of life on Earth still refuses to become a simple story. From the Miller-Urey experiment ...

“We usually think of water as so benign, but when it’s divided in the form of little droplets, water is highly reactive,” said Richard Zare, describing a line of laboratory work that moves electricity ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Microlightning” exchanges among water droplets could have sparked the building blocks of life on ancient Earth, new research ...

Building on the original Miller-Urey experiments, new work shows that some ingredients of the "primordial soup" came from a thoroughly unexpected place. The results may have implications for our ...

Low solubility and low reactivity towards organic compounds make phosphorus a problematic element for the origin and early evolution of life. Reduced and polymerized phosphorus species are more ...

Florida Tech astrobiologist Manasvi Lingam has asked life's biggest questions from a young age. Though he can't recall his exact queries, he says his interests were perfectly consistent with those of ...

Gold nanozymes and primitive minerals gradually accelerated Earth's cellular chemistry, leading to the origin of life.

Understanding the emergence of complex biochemical systems, such as protein translation, is a great challenge. Although synthetic approaches can provide insight into the potential early stages of life ...

When a bone grows, our bodies’ proteins help provide the structure. When a muscle tears, proteins help rebuild it. When we fight an infection, transport oxygen in our blood or send messages to a cell, ...

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 ...