One of science's greatest challenges is determining how life can spontaneously emerge
from a mixture of molecules. A complicating factor is that life and its molecules are inherently …

To increase information density and security in communication, Nature at times encodes
signals in the time domain, for instance, Ca2+ ion signals. Double encoding in the time …

Programmable active matter (PAM) combines information processing and energy
transduction. The physical embodiment of information could be the direction of magnetic …

Autocatalysis has been recognized to be involved in the emergence of life and intrinsic to
biomolecular replication. Recently, an efficient template autocatalysis driven by solvent‐free …

The study of dynamic molecular systems opens new opportunities for the design of networks
presenting life-like behavior, including regulation modules that, following triggering, induce …

Most biological systems show a tight temperature control allowing minimal variations of the
order of one to two degrees. Still, most dynamic studies of relevant natural mechanisms …

One of life's most extraordinary features is its mental dimension, one whose origin and
essence remain a deep scientific mystery. Given the modern scientific view that life emerged …

A major challenge for understanding the origins of life is to explore how replication networks
can engage in an evolutionary process. Herein, we shed light on this problem by …

Early Mars was likely habitable, but could life actually have started there? While cellular life
emerged from prebiotic chemistry through a pre-Darwinian selection process relevant to …

In this paper, we report an open system consisting of three self-replicating peptides, in which
peptide 1 inhibits the duplex template of peptide 2, peptide 2 inhibits duplex 3, and peptide 3 …