Arpita Bose and Zhecheng Zhang explore genetic tools in environmental microbes, citing applications in extracellular electron transfer ...

Most forms of life cannot survive extreme environmental conditions, like excessive temperatures. Likewise, the significant majority of species on our planet have a set lifespan and cannot exist past a ...

A black backpack on a Detroit airport conveyor belt set off a chain of events that now stretches from Midwestern farm fields ...

Scientists have discovered that complex life began evolving much earlier than traditional models suggested. Using an expanded ...

One of the most attractive targets for deep sea mining advocates is the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), a continent-sized ...

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Complex life may have started its rise in Earth’s oxygen-free oceans nearly a billion years earlier than anyone imagined.

Complex life began to develop earlier, and over a longer span of time, than previously believed, a new study has revealed.

MIT researchers traced chemical fossils in ancient rocks back to the ancestors of today’s demosponges. A team of geochemists ...

Muro et al. began by examining the average gene length across the genomes of multiple organisms and found that it follows a log-normal distribution. To better understand this pattern, they constructed ...

Vatican authorities said Monday that Pope Francis has a complex infection in his respiratory system and will require more targeted drug treatment. Officials said the 88-year-old pope is suffering from ...