Life’s origin story just became even more mysterious. Using mathematics and information theory, Robert G. Endres of Imperial ...

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

A new study is challenging long-held beliefs about the origins of life and the building blocks that led to the first genes.

Chemists at UCL have shown how two of biology’s most fundamental ingredients, RNA (ribonucleic acid) and amino acids, could have spontaneously joined together at the origin of life four billion years ...

Geologists studying ancient environments have found preserved evidence of salt diapir structures in the rock record. These ...

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