Life may have emerged from a surprisingly simple network of chemical reactions long before cells or genes existed.

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Somehow, billions of years ago, a mix of organic molecules formed and started the chemical reactions that became life. In a new study, researchers in Germany propose that tiny air bubbles in water ...

They’ve been fired from a gas gun to test their candidacy for panspermia, are believed to have survived the Beresheet lunar probe's crash-landing on the Moon, can live without water, withstand ...

IT STARTS with a single cell. From this cell can come a dizzying variety of shapes and forms, from trees to jellyfish to people. We take this process so much for granted that we forget how ...

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Protecting Earth’s ecosystems and understanding the evolution of life are essential to our shared future. The National Academies study biodiversity, climate change, and the biological sciences to ...

On an island called Signy, amid the rolling waves off Antarctica, lies a moss bank as old as the Roman Empire. Buried deep within its frozen, brown remains, scientists have revived a spark of life ...

Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has given states final say over if and when abortions are legal, the political debates over abortion rights will intensify in legislatures and courthouses around the ...