Done arguing over which type of molecule got life started, a new wave of researchers are deconstructing what life is, does, and could be — and are even trying to create it themselves. Read Yasemin Saplakoglu’s feature on a new era for the research into the origins of life: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-evolving-story-of-how-chemistry-became-biology-20261112/