Fossils and genetics are starting to point to life emerging surprisingly soon after Earth formed, when the planet was ...

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...

Scientists at Yale and in Singapore have devised what may be the ultimate acid test—a comprehensive model for estimating the ...

A new study finds that ocean acidity may have prevented life on Earth from developing for the planet’s first 500 million ...

How did Earth transform from a hostile, acidic ocean world to one that nurtured life? Scientists at Yale and in Singapore ...

An ambitious, multinational research project co-led by the University at Buffalo has demonstrated that Earth's biodiversity ...

From the flamboyant blossoms and birds of rainforests to the living rainbows of coral reefs, Earth’s surface is teeming with life. But some of its most diverse and fascinating biomes are ...

Knowledge about the early forms of life in the universe that may have led to the development of life on Earth remains largely ... quinoline via neutral–neutral reactions, Nature Astronomy ...

“To understand the origin of life, it becomes important to understand when and how Earth began hosting an ocean with a more neutral pH,” said Meng Guo, a former Yale graduate student in Korenaga’s lab ...