origin of life
For the last decade, zoologists have been battling over the question, “What was the oldest branch of the animal family tree?
Researchers at the UW–Madison Wisconsin Institute for Discovery are conducting experiments to test the idea that lifelike chemical reactions might develop readily under the right condition
The chemistry behind how comets might have seeded life on Earth
Rutgers’ Sonia Tikoo helped perform groundbreaking Chicxulub crater study
The team led by Sami Nabhan of the Freie Universität Berlin studied ancient rock formations from South Africa's Barberton greenstone belt
The project broke ground in May and is expected to be completed in mid-2017
More evidence that life could have evolved with relative ease: New research supports ancestors of genes self-copying in a mushy puddle
Results will also be used to understand basic questions about nature such as the cooling mechanisms of the early universe and the formation of planets and stars
"Our simulations are only a first step toward truly realistic 3D simulations of supernova."
