The origins of life on Earth have long fascinated scientists, particularly the nature of the last universal common ancestor ...

In a new peer reviewed analysis, scientists quantify amino acids before and after our “last universal common ancestor.” The ...

2024 — Few questions have captivated humankind more than the origin of life on Earth. How did the first living cells come to exist? How did these early protocells develop the structural ...

Montana Tech researchers have a new scientific article out, detailing how samples taken from hot springs at Yellowstone ...

Prebiotic chemistry is the branch of biochemistry that studies chemical reactions and processes that occurred before life on ...

The revelation that oxygen can be generated in complete darkness not only revises theories about the origins of life on Earth but also expands the potential for finding life on planets without ...

A Yale study reveals that elevated marine iodine concentrations disrupted the stabilization of Earth’s ozone layer, delaying ...

Researchers have innovatively merged protein structural data with genetic sequences to construct evolutionary trees, ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Scientists now believe that a burst of life known as a gamma ray may have helped play a ...

How did living matter first arise on the earth? As natural scientists learn more about nature they are returning to a hypothesis their predecessors gave up almost a century ago: spontaneous generation ...