3 stories tagged origin-of-life, newest first.
287 points by danso | 108 comments
New York Times science article about a discovery made in an $80 motel room that may shed light on the origins of life; the page captured was a bot-block screen.
892 points by defrost | 280 comments
Quanta Magazine article on scientists building a synthetic cell from nonliving materials that can grow and divide, a step toward creating life in the lab.
416 points by harscoat | 347 comments
arXiv paper by Stuart Kauffman and Andrea Roli arguing that the emergence of life is an expected phase transition, using autocatalytic sets and the theory of the adjacent possible.