Rainstorms billions of years ago may have created habitable hotspots on Mars
A new global model suggests ancient Mars did not receive prebiotic formaldehyde evenly. Rainfall and atmospheric water vapor…
Scientists recreated a tiny piece of the early universe inside a glass tube to study how life’s building blocks formed |
Long before Earth existed, before the Sun had fully formed, clouds of gas and microscopic dust drifted through…
Early Complex Life Lived In Oxygenated Seas, Challenging Long‑held Views Of Evolution
Microfossil by Researcher Max Lechte. Credit – LA Reidman McGill University The earliest known eukaryotes, the ancestors of…
Asteroid Ryugu Contains All 5 DNA and RNA Building Blocks, Study Shows
Early Earth was a brutally hot, volcanically active, radiation-bathed wasteland. Somehow amid this hostility, the necessary ingredients for…
Do Extreme Environments Shape Microbial Genomes?
Graphical abstract — University of Waterloo Evolutionary biologists have long known that DNA, the molecule that carries the…
Registration Is Now Open For Origins 2026
Origins 2026 is an international conference jointly organized by the International Society for the Study of the Origins…
With Evo 2, AI Can Model And Design The Genetic Code For All Domains Of Life
Mechanistic interpretability of Evo 2 reveals DNA, RNA, protein and organism-level features — Nature The DNA foundation model…
Did Life Begin as Slime? Scientists Propose Novel ‘Gel-First’ Origin of Life Theory
Long before the first cell divided, before DNA carried genetic instructions, and before membranes enclosed the chemistry of…