Every organism alive on Earth, from oak trees to octopuses to the bacteria in our gut, belongs to a single extended family. Genetic evidence points back to one ancestral cell, a last common forebear ...

Ancient evidence suggests a new twist in how we all got here.

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A doctoral student recreated a tiny piece of the universe in a bottle to investigate the chemistry that led to life on Earth.

Simon Lamb has received grants from the UK Natural Environment Research Council which has supported this work. His book 'The Oldest Rocks on Earth' is published by Columbia University Press, and he ...

How did life begin on Earth? While scientists have theories, they don't yet fully understand the precise chemical steps that led to biology, or when the first primitive life forms appeared. But what ...

Roughly 234 million years ago, Earth’s continents were fused into one massive landmass, and life as we know it was on the ...

Surface-bound gels may have provided the structure and chemistry for life to take root on Earth, and perhaps beyond How did life begin? An international team of researchers from Japan, Malaysia, the ...

How did life begin on Earth? While scientists have theories, they don’t yet fully understand the precise chemical steps that led to biology or when the first primitive life forms appeared. But what if ...