The new findings strengthen the "RNA world" hypothesis that describes how the first life on Earth could have used RNA instead ...

A breakthrough experiment, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, offers compelling support for ...

New experiments suggest RNA, life’s essential molecule, could have formed naturally on early Earth and even arrived from ...

New research shows how RNA, a key molecule for life, may have formed on early Earth using simple chemistry and materials delivered by asteroid impacts, linking space science with the origins of life ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The RNA world theory suggests that life on Earth began with RNA molecules that copied themselves. It’s believed this self-replication eventually gave rise over millions of years to DNA ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." For 400 million years, a leading hypothesis claims, Earth was an “RNA World,” meaning that life must’ve ...

MINING FOR RNA: James Ferris's group at Rensselaer re-creates how nucleotides might have joined on ancient mineral surfaces. The RNA world hypothesis has fueled diverse research approaches, drawing ...

Researchers seeking to understand how life may have emerged from Earth’s primordial soup have found an interesting behavior of ribonucleic acid (RNA), which they suggest could have given way to ...

The transition from simple chemistry to the complex biology of molecules that gave rise to life is a puzzle that scientists have been trying to solve for ages. A new study suggests that conditions on ...

Before RNA and after : geophysical and geochemical constraints on molecular evolution / Stephen J. Mojzsis, Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy, and Gustaf Arrhenius -- Prospects for understanding the origin ...

The question of how life could have emerged is one of the most long-standing mysteries in science. In a new study, the laboratory of LMU Professor Dieter Braun has uncovered an unexpected form of ...