Plants growing at the bottom of giant sinkholes in China are so rich in nutrients that they grow faster than their surface-dwelling counterparts while using fewer basic building blocks, a…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Earth's atmosphere, ocean, and life have interacted over the past more than 500 million years in ways that improved the conditions for early organisms to flourish.…
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image source, Abderrazak El AlbaniImage caption, A team of scientists say they have found evidence of nutrients they believe created these formations in GabonArticle informationauthor, Georgina Ranardrole Science reporter3 hours…
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A new study has found that the genetic code of the single-celled Amoebidium contains remnants of ancient giant viruses, offering insights into the genetic evolution of complex life. This finding…
The mystery of life on Earth may be deeper than we thought. Scientists have discovered that metal nodules on the ocean floor produce oxygen in complete darkness without any help…
If life exists on the icy ocean moons Enceladus and Europa, detectable traces of molecules could survive just below their frozen surface. Scientists have long theorized that both Enceladus, one…
Life flourished on Earth much earlier than previously thought, thriving under the harsh rule of ... [+] Hadean Aeon. LUCA—the last universal common ancestor—was even designed to repel ancient viruses.Getty…
This artist's impression depicts NASA's Cassini spacecraft flying through a cloud of suspected water erupting from the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Credit: NASANASA researchers have found that amino acidspotential…