The Science Cafe returns during Cocktails in the Garden and Fest-of-Ale for a series focused on evolution and the myriad ways that living things…

With Maestro of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra moderating, Martha Grover & Emory music professor Steve Everett held a public discussion on…

Jeff Bada, Jim Cleaves and co-workers revisit the classic Miller-Urey experiment in their latest publication.


International Year of Chemistry event for DeKalb County high school students


Betül is interested in molecular time traveling. She works as part of the Gaucher Group at Georgia Tech, where she is replaying the tape of life…

AAAS Annual Meeting - David Lynn and Lelavision represent the NSF and the Center for Chemical Evolution at Family Days


Dr. Betul Kacar Arslan from Georgia Institute of Technology will be on hand with touchable objects to answer questions and talk about her research…

Researchers engaged in studying the origins of life celebrated a new $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation and the National…

For scientists attempting to understand how the building blocks of RNA originated on Earth, guanine -- the G in the four-letter code of life --…

A European Journal ChemBioChem, Cover: Guanine, Adenine, and Hypoxanthine Production in UV-Irradiated Formamide Solutions.


For the first time, scientists have been able to create a synthetic cell.


We spoke for an hour during the American Association for the Advancement of Science's annual meeting in San Diego last winter and again this…