A Sydney Ph.D. student has recreated a tiny piece of the universe inside a bottle in her laboratory, producing cosmic dust ...

A doctoral researcher in Australia has successfully recreated cosmic dust inside a laboratory, offering a new way to study ...

"We used to think that only very simple molecules could be created in these clouds. But we have shown that this is clearly ...

By resurrecting a 3.2-billion-year-old enzyme and studying it inside living microbes, researchers at the University of ...

Ancient duplicated genes are giving scientists their first real clues about what life was like before all life on Earth shared a common ancestor.

How did life begin on Earth? While scientists have theories, they don’t yet fully understand the precise chemical steps that led to biology or when the first primitive life forms appeared. But what if ...

long before dinosaurs, earth was ruled by oceans filled with bizarre creatures and landscapes that barely resemble the world today. this documentary explores the paleozoic era, a time when life ...

New research shows newborn animals make smart decisions minutes after hatching, using flexible instincts that combine ...

Nitrogen, upon which all life on Earth depends, may hold the key for explaining how early life on the planet evolved and how it could evolve on other planets.

Fay is survived by her daughter Shona, her son Rob, and her grandchildren, as well as what her family lovingly described as ...

Researchers use synthetic biology to reverse-engineer modern nitrogenases and rebuild their possible ancestors, in an effort to better understand the origins of life on Earth and beyond.

One of Earth’s earliest mass extinctions wiped out most ocean life during a sudden global ice age. From the ruins, jawed vertebrates survived, diversified, and transformed the course of evolution.