In 1952, a University of Chicago chemist named Stanley Miller and his adviser, Harold Urey, conducted a famous experiment. Their results, published the following year, provided the first evidence ...

A great example is this recent reboot of the 1952 Miller-Urey “primordial soup” experiment which ended up with some fascinating results. At the heart of the Miller-Urey experiment was a ...

A famous origin-of-life experiment from the 1950s may have more accurately mimicked nature than we initially thought. The influential Miller-Urey experiment showed that with just water ...

A classic experiment proving amino acids are created when inorganic molecules are exposed to electricity isn't the whole story, it turns out. The 1953 Miller-Urey Synthesis had two sibling studies ...

It’s a pretty sure bet that anyone who survived high school biology has heard about the Miller-Urey experiment that supported the hypothesis that the chemistry of life could arise from Earth’s ...

Their work still bears their names: the Miller-Urey experiment inspired countless other studies, and it's in every freshman biology text. But a new analysis of the OG experiment has concluded that ...

At the end of their experiment, the duo found that amino acids, the building blocks of life, had formed. This led to the birth of the Miller-Urey hypothesis, which suggests that life on Earth ...

More than 50 years after it was first performed, scientists are revisiting a famous experiment which sought to identify the conditions needed for the formation of life. In the 1953 Miller-Urey ...

Everyone remembers the Miller-Urey experiment, where a mixture of “primordial” gases (water, methane, ammonia, hydrogen) was subjected to repeated electric sparks and heat in a closed vessel.