"We are really trying to understand how far we can go, chemically, toward larger biological molecules and what environments are needed to form them." ...

A new study suggests that microscopic lightning bolts—called microlightning—within water droplets may have helped forge the ...

In the 1920s, Alexander Oparin, a Soviet Union biochemist, proposed that natural chemical reactions might be the source of life. His proposition was that in the "primordial soup" of prebiotic Earth, ...

New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the ...

New microlightning research out of Stanford adds a "striking" twist to an existing theory about how life may have originated ...

Asgard archaea may have led to the evolution of eukaryotic life ETH Zurich researchers identify actin and microtubule ...