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 ...
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, ...
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Mars rock samples may contain evidence of alien life, but can NASA get them back to Earth?
NASA will explore two different strategies for fetching Mars rocks collected by the Perseverance rover, and there's a chance ...
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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 ...
Earth's air war: Explaining the delayed rise of plants and animals on land
If you like the smell of spring roses, the sounds of summer bird song, and the colors of fall foliage, you have the ...
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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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BBC Revisits David Attenborough’s Landmark Series ‘Life On Earth’ To Celebrate 50th Anniversary
The BBC’s Natural History Unit is beginning work on Life on Earth at 50 (working title), which will reflect on the making the of the 1979 series and its influence on wildlife content.