Where did life come from? Following the theory of abiogenesis, scientists propose life may have begun from nonliving matter. But how this process actually occurred is subject to much scientific debate ...

The history of life's evolution from the primordial soup is a long, complex, and winding one. Today, there is a staggering variety of living species, from the smallest bacteria or archaea to the ...

The speed at which life appeared on Earth intrigues scientists. A new study suggests this phenomenon could be common in the universe. David Kipping, an astronomer at Columbia University, analyzed ...

Ultimately, biological complexity is one of the most important things to come out of evolution. Things started simple. Then genes mutated, cells interacted with their environment, mitochondria stopped ...

Synthetic biology seeks to probe fundamental aspects of biological form and function by construction (resynthesis) rather than deconstruction (analysis). Here we discuss how such an approach could be ...

Scientists suspect that the complex life that slithers and crawls through every nook and cranny on Earth emerged from a random shuffling of non-living matter that ultimately spit out the building ...

An artist's depiction of Earth during the Archean Eon, from 4 to 2.5 billion years ago, when life consisted of only single-celled microbes with no nucleus (prokaryotes). How these primitive organisms ...

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