Researchers from Rutgers and the City College of New York just announced that they may have a solid candidate for the title of “Substance that Kickstarted Life on Earth.” The group has isolated a ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Huge meteorites may not deserve the bad rap they've gotten as life-ending agents of destruction, scientists say. In fact, cataclysmic collisions in space may have set the stage for the ...

Scientists have created a new type of genetic replication system which demonstrates how the first life on Earth - in the form of RNA - could have replicated itself. The scientists from the Medical ...

Scientists have long debated which genetic information carrier – DNA or RNA – started life on Earth, but a new study suggests life could have begun with a bit of both. The research, led by scientists ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Life on our planet faced a stern test during the Cryogenian Period that lasted from 720 million to 635 million years ago when Earth twice was frozen over with runaway glaciation ...

LIFE ON EARTH may have originated with DNA's cousin RNA, but how the modern world evolved from the RNA world is still mostly unknown. Now, in a new study published last week in the journal Nature, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Professor Jochen Brocks inspects 1.64 billion year old sediments for molecules of the Protosterol biota in Barney Creek WASHINGTON ...

Researchers may have just found one of the catalysts for life on earth It’s simple enough in construction that it could have spontaneously come together from primordial soup, and generates enough ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fossil remains of a cell membrane component identified in rocks dating back about 1.6 billion years are opening a window into what scientists are calling a "lost world" of ...