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

The University College London research builds on years of efforts to trace the origins of Earth’s early genetic materials.

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

The earliest days of Earth held secrets that scientists are still trying to uncover. One of the greatest mysteries is how ...

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

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

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

the work is one of the first in the field to combine fluid mechanics with chemistry to better understand the Earth's early evolution. New research led by a York University professor sheds light on ...

“It’s recognized that an energetic catalyst was almost certainly required to facilitate some of the reactions on early Earth that led ... Science and professor of chemistry at Stanford ...

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