A new study explores how complex chemical mixtures change under shifting environmental conditions, shedding light on the ...

Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.

The author of the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club on the science that lies behind his novel Alien Clay, set on a prison planet where the biology is very different to that on Earth ...

Most major biological molecules, including all proteins, DNA and RNA, point in one direction or another. In other words, they ...

So how has life become ... life began on Earth. Challenge them to order the evidence as to what they find the most persuasive and why. This clip will be relevant for teaching Biology at KS3 ...

This book, and the series, would make a great gift (the holidays are coming!) for a young person who is interested in the life sciences, and would be a welcome addition to a local library or ...

Although no one knows for sure how life ... Biology at KS3 and KS4/GCSE in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and SQA National 3/4/5 in Scotland. Professor Brian Cox explains how the Earth ...

A recent study investigates how polyester microdroplets, potential precursors to modern cells, could form under realistic early Earth conditions. Researchers pushed these conditions to the limits, ...

Today it represents something quite different: a set of extraordinary clues, recently reinterpreted, to one of the deepest and most puzzling mysteries of life on Earth. After burbling along for ...