#originoflife — Public Fediverse posts

What if life evolved through diverse environmental structures instead of one universal setting.

Rethinking hydrothermal vents: a structural ecology perspective on the early emergence of metabolic roles
https://zenodo.org/records/20148827

#Evolution #Ecology #Nature #OriginOfLife

Dying Stars Replicated, Shedding Light on Life's Origins

Scientists in a lab recreated dying stars, showing how hydrogen helps create cosmic dust with the building blocks for life. This could explain how life started on Earth.

#CosmicDust, #Astrobiology, #OriginOfLife, #StellarScience, #Hydrogen

https://newsletter.tf/hydrogen-makes-life-building-blocks-in-dying-stars/

Researchers have successfully made cosmic dust in a lab, similar to what dying stars produce. This dust contains the basic ingredients for life, showing they might have come from space.

#CosmicDust, #Astrobiology, #OriginOfLife, #StellarScience, #Hydrogen
https://newsletter.tf/hydrogen-makes-life-building-blocks-in-dying-stars/

Continent formation may have set the stage for life on Earth

Long before forests, fish, or even single cells, Earth may have needed something as unglamorous as growing continents…
#NewsBeep #News #Science #AU #Australia #boron #continentalcrust #EarlyEarth #Geology #GreenGoodNews #Habitability #Mars #NewDiscoveries #originoflife #prebioticchemistry #research #RNA #tourmaline
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/657792/

Continent formation may have set the stage for life on Earth

Long before forests, fish, or even single cells, Earth may have needed something as unglamorous as growing continents…
#NewsBeep #News #Science #AU #Australia #boron #continentalcrust #EarlyEarth #Geology #GreenGoodNews #Habitability #Mars #NewDiscoveries #originoflife #prebioticchemistry #research #RNA #tourmaline
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/657792/

Major Discovery on the Origin of Life Found Inside a Korean Crater - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4g1Oi6SoB8

#Biology #Life #OriginOfLife #Geology #Craters

Dragonfly: Auf der Spur der chemischen Ursprünge des Lebens
https://dauckchristian.home.blog/2026/03/14/dragonfly-auf-der-spur-der-chemischen-ursprunge-des-lebens/ #DragonflyMission #NASA #Titan #SpaceExploration #Astrobiology #Saturn #OceanWorld #OriginOfLife #SpaceScience #PlanetaryScience #Chemistry #SearchForLife #TitanDragonfly

https://www.europesays.com/ie/385431/ Do Extreme Environments Shape Microbial Genomes? #Archaea #ChaosGameRepresentation #DNA #Éire #Evolution #extremophiles #genomics #Https://astrobiologyCom/2026/03/microbiology #hyperthermophile #IE #Ireland #MachineLearning #OriginOfLife #psychrophile #Science #UniversityOfWaterloo

https://www.europesays.com/ie/373254/ With Evo 2, AI Can Model And Design The Genetic Code For All Domains Of Life #AI #Bioethics #Bioinformatics #BioNeMo #Biosafety #Biosignatures #Biotechnology #DNA #Éire #Evo2 #Evolution #Genome #genomics #GitHub #IE #Ireland #Nanotechnology #nucleotide #Nvidia #omics #OpenAccess #OpenScience #OriginOfLife #RNA #Science #synbio

Meteorites, asteroids, and comets can host prebiotic organic compounds. Amino acids in extraterrestrial materials originate from diverse precursor sources or formation mechanisms and/or undergo varied postformation alteration. #Bennu ☄️ #OriginOfLife? www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Multiple formation pathways fo...

Her groundbreaking theory on the #originoflife was rejected 15 times. Then #biology proved her right.

https://www.upworthy.com/lynn-margulis-symbiosis

here's the paper about those interstellar peptides: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02765-7
#science #astrobiology #originOfLife

Giant Virus From Japan is Rewriting the Origin of Life - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8nnEYBmAzY

#Biology #Evolution #OriginOfLife #Viruses

7-Jan-2026
#Ushikuvirus: A newly discovered giant virus may offer clues to the #originOfLife

^^^ I don't think so

Ushikuvirus, an amoeba-infecting giant virus, joins the family of giant #viruses that may have driven the #evolution of complex cells

^^^^ this sounds better

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1111629

#science #astrobiology #cellBiology

How did primitive membranes form at the #OriginOfLife and how did they evolve into the cellular envelopes of modern cells?

Exciting talk by Claudia Bonfio about the non-enzymatic formation of phospholipids under conditions that are plausible for early Earth. https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2024/sc/d4sc05362a (1/2)

#Chemistry #OriginOfLife #lipid #membrane #evolution #LipidTime #NucleicAcids

How did life originate on Earth? #OriginOfLife 🌱

♨️ Underwater thermal vents may have given rise to the first molecular precursors of life

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-underwater-thermal-vents-molecular-precursors.html

#biology #life #earthscience #underwater #thermal #originoflife

#Panspermia, panspermia everywhere

"Intelligent life in the universe is at its beginning"

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1304.3381

#OriginOfLife #Biochemistryandmolecularbiology #IhavenoIdeaOfHalfOfWhatIRead

22-Oct-2025
Underwater thermal vents may have given rise to the first molecular precursors of life
To test the hypothesis, researchers from Brazil, the United States, and Japan built bench-scale reactors that simulate the interaction between hydrothermal fluids and primitive ocean water

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1102999

#science #OriginOfLife #astrobiology

16-Oct-2025
Unexpected discovery on #Saturn's moon #Titan challenges our view on #chemistry before life emerged

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1101679

#science #astrobiology #SolarSystem #OriginOfLife

Evidence That Life on Earth Was a Result of a Giant Impact - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz11a6kFkWo

#Astronomy #Theia #Earth #OriginOfLife

Molecular Origin of Life: What Formed First – Protein, DNA or RNA or a Combination Thereof?
‘Several questions about origin of life have been answered, but much remains to be studied’’ said Stanley Miller and Harold Urey way back in 1959...........
#biology #DNA #originoflife #PROTEIN #Rajeevsoni #Reviews #RNA
Rajeev Soni

https://www.scientificeuropean.co.uk/sciences/biology/molecular-origin-of-life-what-formed-first-protein-dna-or-rna-or-a-combination-thereof/

The unreasonable likelihood of being - #OriginOfLife, terraforming, and AI: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18545 -> What Were the Chances of Abiogenesis? https://www.universetoday.com/articles/what-were-the-chances-of-abiogenesis

New Findings Indicate that the #OriginofLife Started in #Space

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/new-findings-indicate-that-the-origin-of-life-started-in-space

17-Jul-2025
On the origins of life: recreating cellular #metabolism
Researchers have reached a crucial step in understanding how living cells may have evolved from nonliving matter

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1091604

#science #astrobiology #OriginOfLife #chemistry

26-Jun-2025
#Membrane or #metabolism, which came first?
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1088606

#science #OriginOfLife #astrobiology #evolution

28-May-2025
Chemists recreate how #RNA might have reproduced for first time

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1085301 #science #astrobiology #RNAworld #OriginOfLife

🚀 New preprint drop: The PEG Reactor is now live on OSF!
What if symbolic overload isn’t just noise—but a structural force?
A thought experiment meets proto-biotic recursion: vibrational logic, nested feedback, and the architecture of self.

🧪 Read here 👉 https://osf.io/preprints/osf/nzsw3_v1

#Biophysics #OriginOfLife #SymbolicSystems #SyntheticBiology #OpenScience #RecursiveCollapse #RCM

Rare Earth hypothesis (Earth 🌍)

In planetary astronomy and astrobiology, the Rare Earth hypothesis argues that the origin of life and the evolution of biological complexity, such as sexually reproducing, multicellular organisms on Earth, and subsequently human intelligence, required an improbable combination of astrophysical and geological events and circums...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_Earth_hypothesis

#RareEarthHypothesis #Earth #Hypotheses #Astrobiology #FermiParadox #OriginOfLife

23-Jan-2025
Terahertz pulses induce #chirality in a non-chiral crystal
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1071529

intriguing. Could perhaps another far-fetched explanation for the #homochirality of #biomolecules be based on this? #science #physics #OriginOfLife #astrobiology

Dem Ursprung des Lebens auf der Spur entwickelte der Evolutionsbiologe William Martin von der Uni Düsseldorf die #Hypothese, dass GTP der Vorläufer von #ATP als universeller Energieträger gewesen sein muss. Karin Lauschke erklärte er sie genauer: https://www.laborjournal.de/editorials/3114.php #OriginOfLife

25-Sep-2024
#Nanostructures in the deep ocean floor hint at life’s origin

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1059126 #science #OriginOfLife #astrobiology #nanoworld

In this project, we screened de novo designed protein libraries without natural ancestry for function, using #microfluidic droplets - and massively enriched short, truncated protein fragments. Turns out that these ≈ 40- to 60-residue fragments oligomerize to form a dynamic, catalytically proficient assembly, just as primordial peptides might have formed early enzymes during the prebiotic events that led to the #OriginOfLife! #ProteinEvolution

Geochemical and Photochemical Constraints on S[IV] Concentrations in Natural Waters on #Prebiotic Earth: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2023AV000926 -> Loathed by scientists, loved by nature - #sulfur and the #OriginOfLife: https://news.arizona.edu/story/loathed-scientists-loved-nature-sulfur-and-origin-life (a University of Arizona-led study shines a spotlight on sulfur, a chemical element that, while all familiar, has proved surprisingly resistant to scientific efforts in probing its role in the origin of life).

Experimental Evidence of RNA World Hypothesis and Origins of Life on Earth - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og59L1UYUog

#OriginOfLife #Abiogenesis #RNA #RNA_World

30-Nov-2023
Shedding light on the synthesis of #sugars before the #OriginOfLife

Scientists investigate the possible chemical pathways by which pentoses could have formed on early Earth

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1008856 #science #astrobiology #PrebioticChemistry

paper is on open access in JACS Au: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacsau.3c00299 where Au appears to be standing for gold (not for eg alternative universe)

A new issue (n° 10) of #ComplexityThoughts is out!

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#SeanCarroll - The #Physics of #Entropy and the #OriginOfLife

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz1n0RHwLqA&ab_channel=BigThink

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#SeanCarroll - The #Physics of #Entropy and the #OriginOfLife

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#SeanCarroll - The #Physics of #Entropy and the #OriginOfLife

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#SeanCarroll - The #Physics of #Entropy and the #OriginOfLife

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