The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...

How life evolved is one of the central questions in science and has fascinated humans for centuries. Early Earth was undoubtedly a harsh environment, but we know surprisingly little about the ...

And can we 'derive' it in a purely ... Protein Shapes Can Help Untangle Life's Ancient History Jan. 15, 2025 — The three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient ...

A recent study presents a new way to understand life by describing it as a cascade of machines producing machines, spanning ...

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

In other words, our current working model of gene history could be undervaluing early protolife (which included forerunners like RNA and peptides) as compared to what emerged with and after the ...

The findings open the door to using the massive amount of structural data being generated by tools like AlphaFold 2 and help open new windows into the ancient history of life on Earth. The three ...