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 ...

Aging used to be treated as inevitable—something that just happened with time. But modern science is flipping that narrative, ...

Boulder, Colo. — A laboratory method developed for making and analyzing cold, concentrated samples of a mysterious “floppy” molecule thought to be abundant only in outer space has revealed new data ...

Some people lose weight slower than others after workouts, and a Kobe University research team found a reason. They studied what happens to mice that cannot produce signal molecules that respond ...

When the universe was violently born 13.8 billion years ago in the Big Bang, only a few atoms existed in the universe. These atoms, mostly helium and hydrogen, were abundant in the early cosmos but ...

Just like one half of a pair of gloves, some organic molecules have a mirror-image of themselves. These so-called 'handed' or 'chiral' molecules are essential for life, and have been found in ...