A new study published in July 2025 tackles one of science's most profound mysteries—how did life first emerge from nonliving matter on early Earth? Using cutting edge mathematical approaches ...

Experiment may help explain the ‘most intriguing causal paradox in biology’ about how early life forms came together about 4 ...

How old is the earliest trace of life on Earth? A recent conference sees doubts raised about the age of the oldest signs of life.

Endres saw this as a way to explain life’s early appearance on Earth, though he noted it’s hard to prove without evidence of ...

All life on Earth can be traced back to a Last Universal Common Ancestor, or LUCA—and it likely lived on Earth only 400 million years after its formation.

Chemists at University College London have shown how two of biology's most fundamental ingredients, RNA (ribonucleic acid) ...