There were probably millions of times when crystals *almost* became autonomous self-replicating organisms … but it only had to happen once,…

When you’re sick, your body is busy fighting off the flu. If you do hard activities like sports, your body…

Richard Dawkin’s book The Selfish Gene does a good job of explaining how life began and started to evolve. Nobody…

What you are asking is an ongoing question. The study of this is called abiogenesis. Now we admittedly have no…

You are asking a very deep fundamental question for which there is no ELI5. It’s a hard question to answer…

So why haven’t we unlocked this genesis code to create life?

There is a field of study called abiogenesis, which studies precisely this topic. In part scientists have some good ideas…

Think about the human brain. The brain is made up of a huge number of molecules arranged in a specific…

There are two broad ways to categorise cosmology and earth’s place in the universe. Either earth is special, or it’s…

Assuming you mean acne, oily skin, and so on? Sugar makes you body create more oil. Oil is released by…