A new study is proposing the idea that life on other worlds may not look like life as we know it. A research team dug into a type of reaction known as autocatalysis—a self-perpetuating reaction ...

Synaptic decision making: flipping switch-like synapses with cubic autocatalysis. In the brain, the process of learning is a noisy decision making process.

Autocatalysis also has industrial applications. When you add cyanamide to the formose reaction, another of the products is a compound called 2-aminooxazole, which is used in chemistry research and the ...

Autocatalysis also has industrial applications. When you add cyanamide to the formose reaction, another of the products is a compound called 2-aminooxazole, which is used in chemistry research and the ...

In our latest work, my colleagues and I have integrated autocatalysis into a well-known chemical pathway for producing the ribonucleotide building blocks, which could have plausibly happened with ...

A groundbreaking study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison challenges carbon-based life assumptions, revealing the potential for non-carbon-based life forms through autocatalysis.

Life requires repetition of chemical reactions. Describing the kinds of reactions and conditions required for self-sustaining repetition — called autocatalysis — could focus the search for life on ...

Autocatalysis is like a growing population of rabbits. Pairs of rabbits come together, produce litters of new rabbits, and then the new rabbits grow up to pair off themselves and make even more ...

Homochirality of biomolecules such as L-amino acids and D-sugars has been a puzzle for the chemical origin of life. Asymmetric autocatalysis is a reaction in which a chiral product acts as a chiral ...

Taken together, our results suggest that, amongst the three possible degradation modalities of synthetic polymeric scaffolds with strut-like architecture, bulk degradation with autocatalysis and bulk ...