A doctoral student re-created a tiny piece of the universe in a bottle to investigate the chemistry that led to life on Earth.

A 13-atom molecule containing sulfur has been discovered in interstellar space for the first time, providing insight into the origins of the chemistry of life.

The complex building blocks of life can form spontaneously in space, a new lab experiment shows.

On Oct. 3, 1950, three Bell Labs scientists received a patent for a "three-electrode circuit element" that would usher in the transistor age and the era of modern computing. When you purchase through ...

In a peer-reviewed analysis, scientists quantify amino acids before and after our “last universal common ancestor.” The last universal common ancestor (LUCA) is the single life form that branched into ...

MacEwan University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. MacEwan University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. In the 11th century in Cairo, the foundations for ...

In many submerged regions, murky mud shelters strange life-forms that seem to be the key to one of the biggest mysteries of life on Earth. These creatures belong to a domain of life called the archaea ...