The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...

Billions of years ago, the molecular building blocks of life emerged from a complex web of chemical and geological processes.

A new study explores how complex chemical mixtures change under shifting environmental conditions, shedding light on the ...

A recent study presents a new way to understand life by describing it as a cascade of machines producing machines, spanning ...

The surprising discovery of entities smaller than viruses raises profound questions about what life is and how it got started ...

How life evolved is one of the central questions in science and has fascinated humans for centuries. Early Earth was undoubtedly a harsh environment, but we know surprisingly little about the ...

And can we 'derive' it in a purely ... Protein Shapes Can Help Untangle Life's Ancient History Jan. 15, 2025 — The three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient ...

Katrina Twing, a professor of microbiology at Weber State University, was invited to speak at a conference of Japan ...