The complex building blocks of life can form spontaneously in space, a new lab experiment shows.
Scientists at The Wistar Institute have identified a previously overlooked mediator in the body's response to ...
Venus may be a hellscape by our standards, but there’s a chance that some forms of life could evolve there. A new MIT study has now found that the building blocks of life are surprisingly stable in ...
While valuable in demonstrating that nonliving matter could give rise to life's building blocks, including amino acids, through simple chemical reactions, the experiment's implications have been ...
Europa, a moon of Jupiter, and Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, have evidence of oceans beneath their ice crusts. A NASA experiment suggests that if these oceans support life, signatures of that life in ...
Undergraduate researchers study a protein that converts omega-6 fatty acids to omega-3 fatty acids, possibly reducing ...