This biochemist is determined to create a new life form by reversing the shape of molecules.
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A recent study is the first to fabricate electronic components from endogenous molecules.
Nanofabricators could quickly synthesize whatever we need, molecule by molecule.
In a recent paper, biologists outlined a three-part hypothesis for how all life as we know it began.
Quantum physics is starting to show up in unexpected places. Indeed, it is at work in animals, plants, and our own bodies.
Our greatest tool for exploring the world inside atoms and molecules, and specifically electron transitions, just won 2023's Nobel Prize.
Earth wasn't created until more than 9 billion years after the Big Bang. In some lucky places, life could have arisen almost right away.
A next-generation instrument on a delayed rover may be the key to answering the question of life on Mars.
A healthy endocannabinoid system is critical to the human body’s immune functions.
Subtle clues emerge ahead of the attack via changes in scent.
In the early 20th century, a young biochemist named Alexander Oparin set out to connect “the world of the living” to “the world of the dead.”
If there’s life lurking on the moons of Saturn and Jupiter, could our instruments even detect it?
A new study provides the first proof-of-principle that genetic material transferred from one species to another can increase both longevity and healthspan in the recipient animal.
Organic molecules can be produced by living or non-living systems. But the recent findings are very intriguing.
All biological systems are wildly disordered. Yet somehow, that disorder enables plant photosynthesis to be nearly 100% efficient.
How does star-formation, occurring in small regions within galaxies, affect the entire host galaxy that contains it? JWST holds the answers.
While ice itself is slick, slippery, and difficult to navigate across under most circumstances, skaters easily glide across the ice.
If light can't be bent by electric or magnetic fields (and it can't), then how do the Zeeman and Stark effects split atomic energy levels?
Chemists could replace bubbling flasks with tumbling ball mills.
Although early Earth was a molten hellscape, once it cooled, life arose almost immediately. That original chain of life remains unbroken.
In the beginning, genes weren't needed.
There are at least 15 different types of solid water (ice). Now, scientists believe that there might be a second type of liquid water.
Yes, NASA's Perseverance rover found organics on Mars. So did Curiosity. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean anything in the search for life.
Antioxidant vitamins don’t stress us like plants do—and don’t have their beneficial effect.
There are three kinds of memory that all work together to shape your reality. Neuroscientist André Fenton explains.
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Known as the Great Oxygenation Event, Earth froze over as oxygen accumulated in our atmosphere, nearly driving all life extinct.
Amyloid plaque can build up in body organs other than the brain. The resulting diseases — AL amyloidosis, ATTR amyloidosis and more — cause much suffering.
“When molecules misbehave, it can lead to great insight.”