Yasemin Saplakoglu

The discovery that short peptides can form spontaneously on cosmic dust hints at more of a role for them in the earliest stages of life’s origin, on Earth or elsewhere.

While watching a fearful memory take shape in the brain of a living fish, neuroscientists see an unexpected level of rewiring occur in the synaptic connections.

A 3D digital model of a “minimal cell” leads scientists closer to understanding the barest requirements for life.