The discovery kick-started a quest within chemistry and biology to devise experiments that could help answer one of the ...

New research suggests complex life on Earth began 1.5 billion years earlier than ... If it arose from inanimate matter, when and how did it happen? A study led by Cardiff University in Wales ...

Since we don’t have fossils from this time, scientists can look at life forms that still exist today in similar conditions. From these, they have suggested possibilities where life first began ... up ...

A radical new theory rewrites the story of how life on Earth began It has long been thought that the ingredients for life came together slowly, bit by bit. Now there is evidence it all happened at ...

Electrical energy may also have sparked the beginnings of life on Earth billions of years ago, though with a bit less scenery-chewing than that classic film scene. But where did that organic ...

Complex life on Earth may be older than previously thought ... well before the Cambrian Explosion when most animal life began to form. Not everyone is in agreement with the findings of the ...