Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A DNA molecule built from amino acids. (Getty Images/iStockphoto) But that presents a problem, a paradox. Even as biochemistry and ...

The study of the origin of life and prebiotic chemistry seeks to elucidate how inanimate chemical systems transitioned into self‐sustaining, evolving entities. Research in this field integrates ...

Stanley L. Miller, an emeritus professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego whose famous laboratory experiments in 1952 demonstrated how the simple organic ...

“We usually think of water as so benign, but when it’s divided in the form of little droplets, water is highly reactive,” said Richard Zare, describing a line of laboratory work that moves electricity ...

Jack Szostak has decided to drop the work that won him a Nobel Prize, and focus instead on a very big picture: how did interesting chemistry somehow produce something that could undergo Darwinian ...