In a new study, published in Nature this week, an international research group led from Uppsala University in Sweden presents the discovery of a group of microbes that provide new […]
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Posted inOrigin & Evolution of Life, Press Release
Was The Secret Spice in Primal Gene Soup a Thickener?
The original recipe for gene soup may have been simple — rain, a jumble of common molecules, warm sunshine, and nighttime cooling. Then add a pinch of thickener. The last […]
Posted inAstrogeology, Mars, Origin & Evolution of Life, Press Release
Earthquakes, Marsquakes, and the Possibility of Life
A new study shows that rocks formed by the grinding together of other rocks during earthquakes are rich in trapped hydrogen — a finding that suggests similar seismic activity on […]
Posted inGenomics, Proteomics, Bioinformatics, Origin & Evolution of Life, Press Release
A Warmer Early Earth May Have Experienced Faster Evolution of Life
Early life forms on Earth are likely to have mutated and evolved at much higher rates than they do today, suggests a new analysis from researchers at the University of […]
Posted inOrigin & Evolution of Life, Press Release
The First Life In The Universe May Have Arisen on Carbon Planets
Our Earth consists of silicate rocks and an iron core with a thin veneer of water and life. But the first potentially habitable worlds to form might have been very […]
Posted inExtremeophiles and Extreme Environments, Origin & Evolution of Life, Status Report
Looking at The Limits for Life
Biological processes on the Earth operate within a parameter space that is constrained by physical and chemical extremes.
Posted inFossils & Paleontology, Origin & Evolution of Life, Press Release
Earliest Evidence of Reproduction in a Complex Organism
A new study of 565 million-year-old fossils has identified how some of the first complex organisms on Earth possibly some of the first animals to exist reproduced, revealing the origins […]
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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 […]
Posted inAstrochemistry, Biochemistry & Organic Chemistry, Origin & Evolution of Life
Stanley Miller's Forgotten Experiments, Analyzed
Stanley Miller, the chemist whose landmark experiment published in 1953 showed how some of the molecules of life could have formed on a young Earth, left behind boxes of experimental […]
Posted inOrigin & Evolution of Life, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
New Study Outlines 'Water World' Theory of Life's Origin
Life took root more than four billion years ago on our nascent Earth, a wetter and harsher place than now, bathed in sizzling ultraviolet rays. What started out as simple […]