This exciting discovery, detailed in a recent study published in Science Advances, suggests that the surfaces of minerals could have served as natural scaffolds, enabling simple molecules to form into ...

Lipids are made from long chains of fatty acids, but before the existence of complex life, how did these first cell membranes form from the simple molecules present on Earth billions of years ago?

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

They are formed of simple molecules or individual elements arranged in repeating chains, sheets, or three-dimensional arrays. Minerals are typically formed when molten rock, or magma, cools ...

Before the time of Wöhler and Berthelot, the understanding of even simple molecules was as naïve as our current understanding of complex biological systems. How the composition of organic ...

A new method demonstrated by chemists at the University of Chicago shows how to build certain molecules much more efficiently ...

A new study from the Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization suggests that tiny, one-sided interactions between ...

In 2010, Otto stumbled upon some of the first synthetic molecules that could self-replicate ... but also metabolise and evolve,” he says. That simple chemicals can behave in this way is ...

This exciting discovery, detailed in a recent study published in Science Advances, suggests that the surfaces of minerals could have served as natural scaffolds, enabling simple molecules to form ...