RNA probably came before DNA, serving as the storehouse of genetic information and driving chemical reactions; a ...

The origin of the first living molecules on our planet has long been debated. However, recent experiments are revealing new information about the plausible conditions on the early Earth.

The origin of life is surely one of the most important questions in biology. How did inanimate molecules give rise to the ...

“We may never know precisely how life began, but understanding how some of its ingredients take shape is within reach.

An Indian scientist at the University College London has fused two fundamental building blocks of life, ribonucleic acid (RNA) and amino acids, in laboratory experiments that have advanced the decades ...

Laboratory chemists are now edging closer to the moment when lifeless molecules first organized into the chemistry that would eventually support complex organisms. By recreating key early-Earth ...

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 ...

In cold environments, hydrogen cyanide forms solid crystals, which computer simulations predict have multifaceted tips that attract other crystals to form the cobweb-like structures scientists observe ...