"We're arguing that intelligent life may not require a series of lucky breaks to exist," said lead author Dan Mills of the ...
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 ...
The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...
An ambitious, multinational research project co-led by the University at Buffalo has demonstrated that Earth's biodiversity can be monitored and measured from space, leading to a better understanding ...
New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...
“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 ...