Artificial cells that reproduce without biology
Researchers used simple molecules to create cell-like bubbles that grow and divide on their own, without the need for DNA or enzymes.
Tag: origin of life
Did lightning provide food for life’s beginning?
Lightning bolts can be deadly or destructive, but some researchers propose they might also have supplied essential elements for the first…
Building the molecules of life in the lab
The hyperbranched polymer scaffold could have been the early primitive base for the emergence of life. @t_z_jia @CerberaOdollam…
Intelligent life might be rare
How hard is it for evolution to produce intelligent life like humans? We don't really know, but some computational modelers tried to answer…
Chemicals on mineral surfaces may have jumpstarted life
Were metabolic pathways established before life emerged? New experiments observe life-like patterns self-propagating on #mineral surfaces.…
We can learn about life on other planets by studying viruses
Scientists from the University of Zurich and the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, as well as the Icahn School of Medicine at…
Are the building blocks of life at the bottom of the sea?
Scientists recreated a deep-ocean environment where underwater volcanoes spew heat and chemicals to test whether or not biological molecules…
Using Gas Bubbles in Lava to Predict Ancient Air Pressure
What was the weather like in New York last week? You can look it up on weather.com. What was it like on March 7, 1953, in the pre-internet…