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

On early Earth, the reaction could have taken place ... reacted with one another and ultimately led to the origin of life. A better understanding of how these components formed and fused together ...

CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom — Everything has a beginning, and a new study finds that the start of life on Earth arrived in 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 ...

In fact, this contamination by life is probably the normal beginning of life on any planet, including the earth. “Space travelers,” says Gold, “may have visited the earth a billion years ago ...

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, ...