Chemists at UCL and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology have demonstrated how RNA (ribonucleic acid) might have ...

Scientists at UCL and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology have recreated how RNA might have first replicated itself on ...

A prevailing theory in the scientific community, known as the "RNA World" hypothesis, suggests that life may have originally ...

The search for life on other worlds needs a way to sift through the chemistry of their atmospheres. If another species ...

At some point, RNA must have replicated itself before the evolutionary arrival of DNA and proteins, and now we might know how ...

Chemists have demonstrated how RNA (ribonucleic acid) might have replicated itself on early Earth -- a key process in the origin of life.

One of humanity’s most profound questions is whether life exists beyond Earth — and if so, what forms it might take. For ...

The earliest cells harnessed energy through geochemical reactions, a process that LMU researchers have now successfully ...

Scientists have long wondered how life first began on Earth. While we don’t have all the answers, one thing is clear: every ...