The Origins Federation Conference gathered researchers across disciplines in the search for how life began on Earth—and maybe elsewhere ...

Scientists have already created designer viruses in a lab that can kill dangerous bacteria. The next step is designing and ...

In a peer-reviewed analysis, scientists quantify amino acids before and after our “ last universal common ancestor .” The ...

The award “recognises and encourages young scientists up to the age of 45 years who have made an exceptional contribution in ...

Funded by the Alzheimer's Society, a group of scientists are racing against time to track the changes in the brain that leads to memory loss and personality change - and they're already making huge pr ...

Kate Adamala had been working on something dangerous. At her synthetic biology lab, Adamala had been taking preliminary steps toward creating a living cell from scratch with one key twist: All the ...

In living organisms today, complex molecules like RNA and DNA are constructed with the help of enzymes. So how did these molecules form before life (and enzymes) existed? Why did some molecules end up ...

Life’s origin story just became even more mysterious. Using mathematics and information theory, Robert G. Endres of Imperial ...

Anthropic on Monday announced a new service called Claude of Life Sciences that uses artificial intelligence in efforts to ...

Astrobiology poses fundamental questions about life in the universe: How did it emerge? Is there life beyond Earth? In a recently published study in PLOS One, researchers from Leiden University ...

A new study used mathematical formulas and demonstrated that it’s highly unlikely life began on Earth. Instead, the researcher points to panspermia, a theory that life or the ingredients for life came ...

The federal government is more likely to fund curiosity-driven basic research, while industry is more likely to support ...