Isotopic Evidence Shows Life Could Have Flourished on Earth 3.2 Billion Years Ago
New research from the University of Washington found evidence that life was pulling nitrogen out of the air and converting it into a form that…
New research from the University of Washington found evidence that life was pulling nitrogen out of the air and converting it into a form that…
By taking a closer look at feathers representing the evolutionary transition from dinosaurs to modern birds, Yale researchers demonstrate a better understand of how feathers…
Scientists from UCLA have discovered an organism that hasn’t evolved in more than 2 billion years. An international team of scientists has discovered the greatest…
A new study reveals that oxygen levels during the “boring billion” period were only 0.1% of what they are today, providing the first evidence that…
Several newly published studies reveal that flies, worms and humans share ancient patterns of gene expression. Although separated by hundreds of millions of years of…
A team of biophysicists at Rice University used computer models to show that the energy landscape involved in the long-term evolution of proteins is essentially…
A new study describes how electrical energy naturally produced at the sea floor might have given rise to life, assembling decades of field, laboratory and…
New research from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution tests the theory that simple metabolic reactions near ancient seafloor hot springs enabled life as we know it…
In a newly published study, researchers from the Natural History Museum provide the first evidence that any organic material, either inside a meteorite or already…
Researchers from the University of Nottingham have shown that in some organisms the genetic switches that control DNA replication are unnecessary and that cells will…
UC San Diego cosmochemists demonstrated that a chemical reaction, governed by known physical principles, can generate silicate dust with oxygen anomalies that match those found…
New research from biochemists at the UNC School of Medicine offers an intriguing new view on how life began, challenging current assumptions about the origins…
Scientists from the University of Cambridge have discovered a natural example of a functioning gear mechanism in an insect. Previously believed to be only man-made,…
New research presented at the European Planetary Science Congress at UCL examines whether life forms would be able to survive an impact with the surface…
Archaeologists from the University College London have discovered ancient Egyptian iron beads that were made from meteoritic iron, rather than iron ore. Researchers have shown…
In a new DNA study, an international team of scientists reveal clues to human and ape evolution, finding that the evolutionary history of ancestral great…
A newly published study paints a grim outlook for the future of certain mammals and birds, suggesting that the average growing nation should expect at…
A newly published study suggests that life on earth may have started as a result of icy comets that crashed into Earth billions of years…