Scientists awarded prestigious US grant to investigate the chemical asymmetries of life
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has awarded a £1.4m research grant to Professor Stefano Pagliara, University of Exeter, to...
Life
Protocells emerge in experiment simulating lifeless world: ‘There is no divine breath of life’ | Science
Geologist Juan Manuel García Ruiz still speaks with amazement about how he and his colleagues have created “a proto-world” in...
Hunt for life should search for minerals as well as water, Chinese scientists claim | Research
In the search for extraterrestrial life Chinese scientists have come up with a new idea: instead of looking for water,...
Oparin-Haldane theory | Hypothesis, Origin of Life, & Miller-Urey Experiment
Oparin-Haldane theory, idea that organic molecules could be formed from abiogenic materials in the presence of an external energy source—e.g., ultraviolet radiation—and that...
NASA may have accidentally destroyed life on Mars over 50 years ago
In a startling revelation, Dirk Schulze-Makuch, an eminent astrobiologist from Technical University Berlin, recently asserted that almost half a century...
Commentary: Evolving a mitigation of the stress response pathway to change the basic chemistry of life
In his 1859 work “On the Origin of Species,” Darwin acknowledged evolution as a slow process not readily observable (Darwin,...
