Life evolved from simple geochemical processes present on the early Earth. However, the details of this transformation remain a mystery. In this study, researchers modeled the emergence of metabolic ...

The building blocks of life may exist far beyond Earth. This video explores the chemistry inside planet-forming discs, where water and organic molecules are already forming. Discover how the ...

Several studies in recent years have found amino acids, some of the molecules that make up cell membranes, and other key pieces of the chemistry of life floating on grains of interstellar dust. But a ...

How life arose remains a looming question in science that researchers are seeking to answer by studying the features shared among life today. Everything alive is made up of cells, and what made the ...

Explaining isolated steps on the road from simple chemicals to complex living organisms is not enough. Looking at the big picture could help to bridge rifts in this fractured research field. The ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Even in the cold, airless regions between stars, cosmic dust grains can help stitch amino ...

Scientists have discovered the largest organic molecule containing sulfur — a key ingredient for life — ever identified in interstellar space. The researchers call the discovery a “missing link” in ...

Metabolism is the "beating heart of the cell". New research from ELSI retraces the history of metabolism from the primordial Earth to the modern day (left to right). The history of compound discovery ...

Researchers analyzed which molecules can pass through membranes to learn why all life today uses building blocks with a certain “handedness” How life arose remains a looming question in science that ...