An international collaboration has published groundbreaking research, shedding light on the most significant increase in complexity in the history of life's evolution on Earth: the origin of the ...

Scientists have made a bold leap in the search for life’s origins, offering a fresh look at how chemistry might have crossed ...

This link is the initial passage from inorganic matter to the primordial cell and its evolution — the origin of life. If it everproves possible to recreate in the laboratory the prebiotic ...

giving an insight into the origin of life and the singular origin of complexity. Why do virtually all cells "breathe" by pumping protons (hydrogen ions) across a membrane? According to molecular ...

This would reduce the number of domains of life from three to two ... a cell and the segregation of chromosomes during cell division The origin of these microtubules has been unclear – until ...

Tiny magnetic bacteria that live in tightly bound groups are showing scientists how life might have evolved complex, multicellular forms. These rare bacteria can’t survive alone – they depend on one ...