"Each new detection brings us closer to understanding the origins of complex organic chemistry in the universe — and perhaps, ...

New research has shown how harmful RNA clusters form in neurological disorders, and how they can be prevented and ...

Linked to neurological disorders, repeat RNAs aggregate inside droplets but can be disassembled with an engineered piece of ...

Explore how mass spectrometry is transforming planetary science – delivering key data from space missions to Titan, Venus and ...

Urea is considered a possible key molecule in the origin of life. ETH researchers have discovered a previously unknown way in ...

Looking at life today, it is difficult to imagine how complex biological processes and structures could have developed from ...

Erica Halliwell, the entrepreneur and co-founder of Sans Savon, a line of soap-free oil-based cleansers for hands and body, ...

The prebiotic molecular inventory, however, is expected to be diverse, also including molecules that were introduced to the Earth’s atmosphere through meteorites. In a novel approach, PhD ...

Micrometeorites are thought to shower down on planets throughout the universe, so the discovery that they help protocells ...

Micrometeorites raining down from space may have provided the perfect surfaces for the first primitive cells to form on Earth ...