Our prehistoric Earth, bombarded with asteroids and lightening, rife with bubbling geothermal pools, may not seem hospitable today. But somewhere in the chemical chaos of our early planet, life did […]
Harvard University
Posted inGenomics, Proteomics, Bioinformatics, Press Release
Cellular Division Strategy Shared Across All Domains Of Life
The three domains of life – archaea, bacteria, and eukarya – may have more in common than previously thought. Over the past several years, Ariel Amir, Assistant Professor in Applied […]
Posted inExoplanets, -moons, -comets, Press Release
X-Rays Reveal Temperament of Possible Planet-Hosting Stars
A new X-ray study has revealed that stars like the Sun and their less massive cousins calm down surprisingly quickly after a turbulent youth. This result has positive implications for […]
Posted inHabitable Zones, Press Release
A Perfect Storm of Fire and Ice May Have Led to Snowball Earth
What caused the largest glaciation event in Earth’s history, known as ‘snowball Earth’? Geologists and climate scientists have been searching for the answer for years but the root cause of […]