A new type of methane-based, oxygen-free life form that can metabolize and reproduce similar to life on Earth has been modeled by a team of Cornell University researchers. Taking a […]
Origin & Evolution of Life
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Ancient Rocks Show Life Could Have Flourished on Earth 3.2 Billion Years Ago
A spark from a lightning bolt, interstellar dust, or a subsea volcano could have triggered the very first life on Earth. But what happened next? Life can exist without oxygen, […]
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Nuclear Fragments Could Help Uncover Origins of Life-supporting Planets
New research published today in the journal Physical Review Letters describes how recreating isotopes that occur when a star explodes, can help physicists understand where life-supporting elements may be found […]
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Finding Infant Earths and Potential Life Just Got Easier
Among the billions and billions of stars in the sky, where should astronomers look for infant Earths where life might develop? New research from Cornell University’s Institute for Pale Blue […]
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The Abundance of Extraterrestrial Life After the Kepler Mission
The data recently accumulated by the Kepler mission have demonstrated that small planets are quite common and that a significant fraction of all stars may have an Earth-like planet within […]
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Deep-earth Carbon Offers Clues on Origin of Life on Earth
New findings by a Johns Hopkins University-led team reveal long unknown details about carbon deep beneath the Earth’s surface and suggest ways this subterranean carbon might have influenced the history […]
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Scientists Create Possible Precursor to Life
How did life originate? And can scientists create life? These questions not only occupy the minds of scientists interested in the origin of life, but also researchers working with technology […]
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New Evidence of Ancient Multicellular Life Sets Evolutionary Timeline Back 60 Million Years
A Virginia Tech geobiologist with collaborators from the Chinese Academy of Sciences have found evidence in the fossil record that complex multicellularity appeared in living things about 600 million years […]
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Early Earth Less Hellish Than Previously Thought
Conditions on Earth for the first 500 million years after it formed may have been surprisingly similar to the present day, complete with oceans, continents and active crustal plates. This […]
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Oxygen-producing Life A ppeared at Least 60 Million Years Earlier Than Previously Thought
Geologists from Trinity College Dublin have rewritten the evolutionary history books by finding that oxygen-producing life forms were present on Earth some 3 billion years ago – a full 60 […]