A Scientist Says Aliens May Have Started Life on Earth

This theory was the brainchild of Francis Crick (yes, the one who helped identify DNA) and Leslie Orgel, the originator of ...

We Could Have Evolved From Extraterrestrials—New Research Suggests It’s Unlikely Life Began on Earth

It's highly unlikely life started organically on Earth, one expert suggests. But an extraterrestrial intervention might ...
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Chemists show how RNA might have started to make proteins on early Earth

Chemists at University College London have shown how two of biology's most fundamental ingredients, RNA (ribonucleic acid) and amino acids, could have spontaneously joined together at the origin of ...
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Fungi’s ancient origins: How they shaped life on Earth a billion years ago

The findings show that the common ancestor of the extant fungi was about 1.4 to 900 million years ago. That is far earlier ...
Science Daily

Scientists recreate life’s first step: Linking amino acids to RNA

Researchers demonstrated how amino acids could spontaneously attach to RNA under early Earth-like conditions using thioesters, providing a long-sought clue to the origins of protein synthesis. This ...