Scientists have made a bold leap in the search for life’s origins, offering a fresh look at how chemistry might have crossed ...

Researchers are re-creating early Earth conditions, discovering new RNA activities, and uncovering clues to life in the most ancient rocks. Yet the central role of RNA at life's debut is hardly ...

Molecules that combine elements of RNA and DNA, so-called chimeric molecules, may have been an important step in the emergence of life on Earth from the primordial ... lifeforms—commonly thought to be ...

Almost. Many biologists think that the first life on Earth had instructions encoded not in DNA but in a primitive form of RNA. In this so-called "RNA World," RNA by itself could have played all ...

New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the ...

Researchers found LUCA, our earliest common ancestor, lived 4.2 billion years ago. It had a complex biology, affecting its ...

This of course does not prove life began under these circumstances ... and would not have existed on Earth to assist the ...

You’ll go on a journey through billions of years of evolutionary history to see how RNA may have allowed life to form on Earth ... folding game Foldit, the first open online game that lets ...

These included the amino acid glycine and uracil, a nucleotide base in RNA ... for life’s earliest building blocks, an alternative abiogenesis hypothesis proposes that Earth’s first ...

“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 ...