primordial soup

American and New Zealand researchers use experimental evidence to overturn widely-accepted theory on the dawn of life on Earth

The evolutionary path to first proteins may have been paved with relatively easy, small square-dance steps

Researchers have gained new insights into how components of RNA and DNA formed from chemicals present on early Earth before life existed

First results from collisions of three-particle ions with gold nuclei reveal clear-cut evidence of primordial soup's signature particle flow