The history of life on Earth is a tale of slow burns and sudden explosions, shaped by environmental upheavals and ...

In a new peer reviewed analysis, scientists quantify amino acids before and after our “last universal common ancestor.” The ...

The origins of life on Earth have long fascinated scientists, particularly the nature of the last universal common ancestor ...

2024 — Few questions have captivated humankind more than the origin of life on Earth. How did the first living cells come to exist? How did these early protocells develop the structural ...

Montana Tech researchers have a new scientific article out, detailing how samples taken from hot springs at Yellowstone ...

A Yale study reveals that elevated marine iodine concentrations disrupted the stabilization of Earth’s ozone layer, delaying ...

Researchers have innovatively merged protein structural data with genetic sequences to construct evolutionary trees, ...

We have only one example of biology forming in the universe—life on Earth. But what if life can form in other ways? How do you look for alien life when you don’t know what alien life might look like?

Earth ejecta, for instance, could hold Earth life.

The three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient evolutionary relationships in the tree of life, according to a new study. It is the first time researchers use data from ...