A great example is this recent reboot of the 1952 Miller-Urey “primordial soup” experiment which ended up with some fascinating results. At the heart of the Miller-Urey experiment was a ...

The findings quickly became famous: Out of this primordial soup emerged amino acids, the chemical building blocks of life. The discovery kick-started a quest within chemistry and biology to devise ...

Before the invention of alphabets, literacy was the purview of Egyptian and Mesopotamian scribes trained in complex writing systems that could take years to master. Proto-Sinaitic script, which ...

Molecules that combine elements of RNA and DNA, so-called chimeric molecules, may have been an important step in the emergence of life on Earth from the primordial soup that existed billions of years ...