The ocean serves as Earth's largest dynamic carbon sink, absorbing 400 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO₂) annually through ...

A growing body of research suggests that cosmic dust, originating from asteroid collisions and comet disintegration, may have played a crucial role in sparking the formation of life ... sulfur—crucial ...

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

Researchers from the Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology (APM) of the Chinese Academy of ...

In one of Stanford’s labs, a roll of Scotch tape spins under a motorized roller. To the untrained eye, it’s an ordinary strip ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new way that urea—an essential building block for life—could have formed on the early Earth. Instead of requiring high temperatures or complex catalysts, this ...

LMU researchers have demonstrated a possible mechanism for metabolic processes without cell membranes in water-filled pores.

It's difficult to overstate just how surprisingly early to the party this water may have been. “This suggests that water, the ...

The reaction efficiencies were higher than expected, compared to previous reports of visible light-driven photocatalytic ammonia formation.” ...

Researchers in Spain have observed the formation of protocells, which are basic building blocks of life, in a lifeless world simulation experiment.

But they have shrunk by more than 40 percent since 1968, uncovering rocks that, when exposed to the elements, can trigger chemical reactions that leach toxic metals into the water and turn it acidic.