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A free lecture about the vital and continuing role of microbiomes, the first forms of life on planet Earth, will take place at the end of this month. The Bermuda Environmental Sustainability Taskforce ...

The story of Tibor Gánti is one of a visionary scientist who remained in the shadows for far too long. As the scientific community continues to unravel the origins of life, his work provides a ...

A stunning fossil discovery in South Australia has provided a groundbreaking glimpse into one of evolution’s greatest mysteries. A 555-million-year-old worm-like organism, Uncus dzaugisi, has been ...

They’re the building rocks of life. Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ingredients to life on Earth were present in the early days of our solar system, ...

Life may have emerged on Mars and Earth at the same time. That's according to new evidence found in a Martian meteorite that indicates the key ingredient for life, water, appeared on Mars around 4.4 ...

It was four times the size of Mount Everest, unleashed a tsunami bigger than any in known human history and boiled the oceans — but an ancient meteor may also have nurtured life on Earth after ...

New research reveals how powerful coronal mass ejections may have been essential to the rise of life on planet Earth.