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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Scientists have recently uncovered a groundbreaking discovery in the ocean’s depths, revealing a new form of life that could reshape our understanding of biology and ecosystems. This discovery, made ...

The 2025 award ceremony of the UNESCO-Equatorial Guinea International Prize for Research in the Life Sciences will take place on 25 November 2025 in Malabo, Republic of Equatorial Guinea. On this ...

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 ...