Shallow-water hydrothermal vents are dynamic ecosystems that occur below 200 m in tectonically active regions of the planet.
In a scientific breakthrough with cosmic implications, researchers have, for the first time, precisely dated the emergence of microbial life within a meteorite impact crater—revealing that life not only survives […]
Hydrogen-producing hydrothermal systems in the deep ocean are rare but critical to understanding Earth’s internal processes and the conditions that may have fostered life’s origins.
Yielding Enormous New Database Purpose-Built for Generative Foundation Models in Biology Basecamp Research, an AI company dedicated to using nature to solve the most pressing challenges in the life sciences, […]
If you’re an animal living through a mass extinction, it’s best to be one that’s found a unique way to make a living.
Astrobiology.com Editor’s note: Recently the Fram2 mission took four astronaut explorers on an orbital path that covered both of our planet’s polar regions. This was the fist human mission to […]
Large DNA viruses of the phylum Nucleocytoviricota infect diverse eukaryotic hosts from protists to humans, with profound consequences for aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. While nucleocytoviruses are known to be highly […]
An international team on board Schmidt Ocean Institute’s R/V Falkor (too) working in the Bellingshausen Sea rapidly pivoted their research plans to study an area that was, until last month, […]
The average long-term impact of Darwinian evolution on Earth’s habitability remains extremely uncertain. Recent attempts to reconcile this uncertainty by “Darwinizing” nonreplicating biogeochemical processes subject to persistence-based selection conform with […]
A team of scientists from University College Cork (UCC) , the University of Connecticut, and the Natural History Museum of Vienna have uncovered how plants responded to catastrophic climate changes […]
