A new look at ancient rocks suggests that a self-sustaining nutrient cycle in ancient oceans helped keep Earth's atmosphere ...

RNA and DNA are chemical cousins. But one tiny difference between them (an extra oxygen atom repeated along RNA’s backbone) ...

Is there life elsewhere, or is Earth unique in the universe? This is one of humanity's great unanswered questions. One way to approach this mystery is to investigate how life began here on Earth. Our ...

September marks three years since the adoption of the Global Framework on Chemicals, which aims to protect people and planet ...

Scientists may have found a clue to one of the biggest mysteries surrounding the origin of life: how fragile RNA molecules could gather and survive before cells existed. New research shows that RNA is ...

Scientists want to create cells from scratch, to unveil life’s origins or provide specialized functions. Are they close?

Scientists have helped solve a longstanding mystery about how Earth remained habitable after oxygen first accumulated in its ...

UB chemical engineering researchers are working to advance a recycling process to separate individual types of plastics from ...

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Waking up at the same time every morning, being jostled on a crowded train, and repeating the daily commute between home and ...

Developmental toxicologist Alicia Timme-Laragy studies how PFAS and other common chemicals affect embryonic development and ...

The smartphone sitting forgotten in your drawer contains neodymium. So does the old hard drive you tossed, the dead laptop in ...