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 ...

In a new peer reviewed analysis, scientists quantify amino acids before and after our “last universal common ancestor.” The last universal common ancestor is the single life form that branched into ...

About 99% of Earth is uninhabitable; in deep underground places with high pressure and temperature, even the toughest ...

Located less than 20 light years away, HD 20794d could potentially be one of the most Earth-like planets found so far, ...

could explain the origin of life on Earth. Watch the full documentary Science’s Biggest Mysteries on BBC Select. From the Mouse Bunker to the Embassy of Czechoslovakia, the Cold War buildings ...

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

Climate change presents the gravest threat to life on Earth in all of human history. The planet is warming to a degree beyond what many species can handle, altering or eliminating habitat, reducing ...

From weeping trees to teeth stronger than Kevlar, senior curator Dr Tom White sheds some light on a few of the fascinating, unnoticed ways the Moon shapes the course of life on Earth. 'The Moon has ...

Foraminifera, though eukaryotic, have adapted to use chemoautotrophy to enable them to survive where oxygen and sunlight are ...

"The question 'Are we alone?' is one of the most significant questions, not just in the history of science, but in the ...

Phosphorus, the vastly underappreciated 15 th element on the periodic table, is essential to all life as we know it ... never found as a free element on Earth, but instead is always bound up ...