Once scientists have collected an eDNA sample, they analyze it via bar coding, which can either look for a single species or ...

Purple Earth Hypothesis suggests Earth was once a purple planet. Early microbes used retinal, not chlorophyll, for ...

New research shows that fluctuating environmental conditions helped chemical mixtures self-organize and evolve in structured ...

Dr. Ranil Senanayake The Oxygen that is present in the air that we breathe is the birth right of every organism that lives on this planet. It is free for everyone. However, the action of some to take ...

In a small manganese oxide cluster, teams from HZB and HU Berlin have discovered a particularly exciting compound: two high-spin manganese centers in two very different oxidation states. This complex ...

Researchers present an alternative to the long-held “hard steps” theory to explain the evolution of complex life, suggesting ...

A popular model of evolution concludes that it was incredibly unlikely for humanity to evolve on Earth, and that extraterrestrial intelligence is vanishingly rare.

“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...

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

In the real world, twilight zones are any indefinite boundary ... At the ocean surface you’ll find the sunlight (euphotic) ...

A recent study investigates how polyester microdroplets, potential precursors to modern cells, could form under realistic early Earth conditions. Researchers pushed these conditions to the limits, ...

and real-time detection of reaction products. The "artificial photosynthesis" technology significantly reduces energy consumption as it is capable of working efficiently at room temperature and ...