One of the best ways to learn how Antarctic sea spiders thrive under extreme conditions is to squeeze their guts out through their legs. That's what a Northeastern University biologist is doing to ...

Researchers demonstrated how amino acids could spontaneously attach to RNA under early Earth-like conditions using thioesters, providing a long-sought clue to the origins of protein synthesis. This ...

Calcium tartrate crystals can coexist with tartrate-containing polyester microdroplets, suggesting the potential for dynamic phase transitions of tartrates or tartrate-containing molecules on early ...

Assembly Theory is a way to understand how the complexity of life emerged through a mechanism of “self-assembly.” It could explain how life formed on Earth—or other planets—via the shortest path to ...

New experiments suggest RNA, life’s essential molecule, could have formed naturally on early Earth and even arrived from ...

The purpose of the workshop, titled “Green Mars”, was to develop an “up-to-date perspective on the feasibility of terraforming Mars”.