For decades, scientists have scoured the skies and planetary surfaces for evidence that life might exist beyond Earth. New ...

Open the Youtube video The origin of life is one big chemical Catch-22. It always has been. To get life started, you need a ...

The chemistry of life’s emergence, the way merely organic, carbon-containing molecules begin linking up into large, self-replicating molecules like DNA and form life, remains a mystery, but scientists ...

The origin of life on Earth has long been a mystery that has eluded scientists. A key question is how much of the history of life on Earth is lost to time. It is quite common for a single species to ...

A new study explores how complex chemical mixtures change under shifting environmental conditions, shedding light on the prebiotic processes that may have led to life on Earth. In the Painted Desert ...

In a different reality, space might smell like almonds. After all, scientists surveying the chemicals in the cosmos have found benzonitrile; just a bit of the compound would fill your nostrils with a ...

Several studies in recent years have found amino acids, some of the molecules that make up cell membranes, and other key pieces of the chemistry of life floating on grains of interstellar dust. But a ...

"Even very complex organic chemistry is compatible with concentrated sulfuric acid." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Life as we ...

OF recent years much attention has been given to plant- or phyto-chemistry, if we may judge from the number of books which have been published on the subject. The origin of this attention can be ...

Study the chemistry of life to prepare for careers in biotech, pharma, forensics, and agriculture. Educational Growth: Follow in the footsteps of nearly half of RIT’s biochemistry bachelor’s degree ...

Metabolism is the "beating heart of the cell". New research from ELSI retraces the history of metabolism from the primordial Earth to the modern day (left to right). The history of compound discovery ...