A recent study from researchers at the University of Toulouse has revealed a fascinating insight into the origins of life on ...

While the tetrapods initially still needed water to reproduce, the evolution of the egg and internal fertilisation led to the ...

Eukaryogenesis occurred suddenly, driven by the growing length of genes and the limitations on producing longer proteins. An ...

It’s 9 a.m. on Monday morning, and I’m on the sixth floor of Sterling Hall at UW–Madison. Here, in the newly formed Wisconsin ...

A new review of ocean data suggests that more than 99.999 percent of the global deep seafloor has never been seen by humans.

Most astronomers agree that life is likely common throughout the universe. While Earth is the only world known to have life, ...

On April 25, 2025, the White House Office of Management and Budget announced a plan that would slash NASA’s science program ...

“Physicists and cosmologists should wrestle with these findings, especially as they consider the origins of life on Earth and elsewhere in the habitable universe, evolving in concert with the ...

Life depends on genes being switched on and off at exactly the right time. Even the simplest living organisms do this, but usually over short distances across the DNA sequence, with the on/off switch ...

A new documentary is causing a stir by asserting the presence of alien life on Earth and claiming a US government effort to hide information on possible extraterrestrial activity. New findings ...

A new paper written by a theoretical physicist at Howard University claims that aneural eukaryotic cells could process ...