New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the ...

Scientists Uncover Key Mechanism in Evolution: Whole-Genome Duplication ... not only today but also at the time of the origin of life. So where was there sufficient phosphorus four billion years ...

Long-term studies at Georgia Tech and beyond show that evolution is happening right now. They capture the rise of new species ...

Researchers found that cooperative fluid dynamics between single-celled organisms may have driven the evolution of ...

The changes in ocean chemistry were gradual. The Archaean period lasted 1.5 billion years. This is more than half of Earth’s ...

There are roughly a trillion species of microorganisms on Earth—the vast majority of which are bacteria. Bacteria consist of ...

Microbial organisms dominate life on Earth, but tracing their early history and evolution is difficult because they rarely ...

In a recent study, researchers gained new insight into the lives of bacteria that survive by grouping together as if they ...

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...

Asgard archaea may have led to the evolution of eukaryotic life ETH Zurich researchers identify actin and microtubule ...