Jeremy England, this month’s Reading Frames author, explains his views on how life may have started not with a primordial, disordered soup, but with smart protein assemblages.

In Chapter 7, “Wind and Breath,” author Jeremy England considers research findings that point to a surprising, emergent property of seemingly disordered molecules.

Is the model of early life as a freak occurrence in a disordered, primordial soup of chemicals wrong?

A mixture of chemicals induces reactions reminiscent of life on pyrite.

A new study finds mixtures of nucleotide types, rather than pure systems, are more likely to yield the building blocks of life.

Our brains have evolved to the point where we can build artificial brains that might help us understand our brains. Let that sink in.

The discovery that the adenosine derivative aids self-replication adds weight to the theory that life on Earth originated from a mixture of RNA molecules.

Microbes were living on land as early as 3.22 billion years ago, fossilized rocks show, 500 million years earlier than previously documented.

Contrary to some hypotheses, the organelles did not descend from any known lineage of Alphaproteobacteria, researchers find.