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 ...

For decades, astronomers treated starlight and dust as a simple conveyor belt, a steady wind that carried the raw ingredients ...

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 ...

A team of researchers studied the properties of membranes to understand how these cellular structures influenced the chemistry of life on Earth as it began. How life arose remains a looming question ...

Life may have emerged from a surprisingly simple network of chemical reactions long before cells or genes existed.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Could an interstellar comet be deliberately sowing the seeds of life across the Solar System? The recent passage of 3I/ATLAS, a hyperbolic visitor from beyond our Sun’s gravitational reach, has ...