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The following four experiments shattered my perceptions about how the mind works. Shattered. I used to think I knew my mind. I believed that I truly understood how it works. But when I read about ...

The original box containing archived spark discharge samples prepared by Stanley Miller in 1958. For unknown reasons, Miller never analyzed these even though this is his first experiment using ...

A much-debated theory holds that 4 billion years ago, give or take, long before the appearance of dinosaurs or even bacteria, the primordial soup contained only the possibility of life. Then a ...

It's been 30 years since a group of scientists led by Carl Sagan found evidence for life on Earth using data from instruments on board the Nasa Galileo robotic spacecraft. Yes, you read that correctly ...

Half a century after the first successful Mars landing, Viking's greatest legacy may be the questions it taught us to ask.

In the 1950s, biochemist Stanley Miller performed a series of experiments to demonstrate that organic compounds could be created under conditions mimicking the primordial Earth. Some unused samples ...

The precise methodology of Richard Feynman's famous double-slit thought-experiment – a cornerstone of quantum mechanics that showed how electrons behave as both a particle and a wave – has been ...

Recent research showed that an artificially constructed self-replicating RNA system modeling primitive life at the origin of life evolved to become more prone to extinction under certain experimental ...

Lithopanspermia is the idea that that alien life might be able to migrate between worlds sealed inside rocks knocked loose by asteroids or comets. Credit: Mark Garlick / Science Photo Library / Getty ...