New experiments reveal that protein precursors can form naturally in deep space under extreme cold and radiation. Scientists ...

The chemical foundations of life could be found in the frigid pockets of molecular clouds that exist in the space between ...

That’s only one problem. Your immune system also has an adaptive system of specialized immune cells and antibodies that attack and destroy invading microbes. This system remembers what those intruders ...

Hungarian biologist Tibor Gánti is an obscure figure. Now, more than a decade after his death, his ideas about how life began ...

Challenging long-held assumptions, Aarhus University researchers have demonstrated that the protein building blocks essential for life as we know it can form readily in space. This discovery, ...

Our planet is unique for its ability to sustain abundant life. From studies of the rock record, scientists believe life had already emerged on Earth at least 3.5 billion years ago and probably much ...

Let’s say it’s 2036, and scientists are working on a new class of drugs. Today, for instance, pharmaceutical companies use ...

During my visits to several schools in villages and nearby semi-urban areas, I encountered a troubling contradiction at the ...

New research suggests that essential components of life may assemble in interstellar space long before planets or oceans ...

As soon as you are wounded—whether from grabbing a hot pan or contracting the flu—you begin a unique journey through variable ...

The so‑called Baghdad battery has long sat at the crossroads of science, archaeology, and speculation, its humble clay jar ...