We think of impact events as being disastrous for life,” Harvard geologist Nadja Drabon explains, but one such impact by a ...

For most of human history, the overall population is believed to have remained quite low. But since the early 1800s, the ...

While researchers are still debating the exact timeline, one thing is becoming clear. Life didn’t take long to get started.

A recentscientific study supported by NASAand conducted by a team of researchers from Tōhō University in Japan has revealed a ...

The mystery of life’s beginnings has long captivated scientists. Central to that search is LUCA—the last universal common ...

The earliest cells harnessed energy through geochemical reactions, a process that LMU researchers have now successfully ...

Mono Lake, tucked in the Eastern Sierra, is no ordinary lake. Its eerie tufa towers and teeming swarms of brine shrimp and ...

Earth's magnetic field was so weak it almost disappeared. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, complex life emerged.

Scientists have decoded the atomic structure of Photosystem I from a 3-billion-year-old cyanobacteria lineage, offering a unique look at early oxygen-producing photosynthesis. The ancient nanodevice, ...