Dormancy: Life's first survival strategy?
The early Earth was an extreme place. Asteroids pommeled the surface. Volcanoes spewed lava and carbon dioxide. The thick, ...
Scientists Say We May Have Been Wrong About the Origin of Life
In a new peer reviewed analysis, scientists quantify amino acids before and after our “last universal common ancestor.” The ...
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Alien life may look nothing like life on Earth — so how should we go about looking for it?
As life evolved on Earth, it used and created minerals for exoskeletons and habitats. The hundred minerals present when life first formed have grown to about 5,000 today. For example, zircons are ...
Oxford professor identifies potential successor to humans on Earth: “A civilization-building species”
An Oxford academic has theorized about what might happen if humans were to go extinct and reveals which species could take ...
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What If Extraterrestrial Life Doesn’t Look Like Anything Found On Earth?
As life evolved on Earth, it used and created minerals for exoskeletons and habitats. The hundred minerals present when life first formed have grown to about 5,000 today. For example, zircons are ...
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We’re so, so lucky that life on Earth has survived for this long
If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Scientists have spent an incredible amount of manpower attempting to determine what ...
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Life probably exists beyond Earth. So how do we find it?
“We can spend a couple weeks up here, and we start to forget about life on Earth,” he tells me. “First you forget the day of the week. Then you start forgetting to call your family.