“Bit by bit, these tiny building blocks land on rocky planets within a newly formed solar system. If those planets happen to ...

New research suggests that essential components of life may assemble in interstellar space long before planets or oceans ...

A single enzyme that can generate all four nucleoside triphosphates, the building blocks of ribonucleic acid (RNA), has been ...

The chemical foundations of life could be found in the frigid pockets of molecular clouds that exist in the space between ...

Physicists show that the shape of components is a major determinant of how quickly and efficiently complex structures self-assemble. Physicists at LMU Munich show that the shape of components is a ...

The first analyses of samples brought back from the asteroid Ryugu show that this space rock contains some of the molecules needed for life. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

The discovery of the nucleobase uracil is a big step forward for astrobiology. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. One of the four ...

IBM Quantum System Two is the building block of quantum-centric supercomputing. IBM Quantum System Two is the bedrock for scalable quantum computation. It is now operational at IBMs lab in Yorktown ...

Professor Erwin Frey, Chair of Statistical and Biological Physics at LMU and member of the ORIGINS Excellence Cluster, and his research fellow Dr. Florian Gartner have now investigated an aspect of ...