An organic sulfur compound known as a thioester spontaneously catalyzing the binding of RNA to amino acids may be where it ...

Under simulated conditions that probably existed on early Earth, the mixed membrane showed a better chance of survival, making it a likely candidate to have paved the origin of primitive life forms.

Alien life exist in a primitive form in our galaxy, Stephen Hawking said.

Primitive microorganisms provide important clues as to how all creatures employ a basic regulatory mechanism to conduct the business of life. Peter Kennelly, professor of biochemistry at Virginia ...

This article connects the images to Athenian discourses about primitive life and shows how the act of reclining on the ground was suited not only to the conservative sphere of ritual but also to ...

“Oxygen was actually toxic to earlier primitive life, but copper gave animals the means to cope with it and use it to their advantage – it was a clever bit of evolution,” John Parnell, lead ...

Primitive life could have lived on ancient Mars, NASA says. A sample of Mars drilled from a rock by the Mars rover Curiosity rover 'shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes.' ...

As researchers race to cultivate these intriguing cells from the deep seafloor, the few growing in labs are our best glimpses of the forerunners of complex life.