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

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Life on Earth may have started with a molecule that still runs our cells today. As researchers probe ribonucleic acid in the ...

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 ...

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

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

A treasure trove of Cambrian fossils has been discovered in southern China, providing a window on marine life shortly after ...

The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where ...

Hungarian biologist Tibor Gánti is an obscure figure. Now, more than a decade after his death, his ideas about how life began ...

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

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.