Earth's earliest life forms developed ways to survive the harmful effects of arsenic to cope with dramatic changes in their ...

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The search for life beyond Earth is a holy grail quest for many experts, but finding where to look is a core issue.

Scientists agreed the rocky outcrops in a remote part of Quebec, Canada, were ancient. But were they really Earth’s oldest?

Karl Schmitz, assistant professor of biological sciences, was among the researchers who explained their work during the University of Delaware’s first Synthetic Biology Symposium. Schmitz studies ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new way that urea—an essential building block for life—could have formed on the early ...

Scientists say they may have finally found evidence of life's hidden rule which helps govern how species spread across the ...

Canadian researchers said they'd found the world's oldest rocks in northern Quebec. The find was controversial. But after ...

Life-bearing water arrived on Earth later rather than sooner Insight could aid the understanding of how and when life arose Date: February 3, 2025 ...

In 2018, members of a New Zealand research team visited the McMurdo ice shelf in east Antarctica, home to several such pools, ...

Intelligent life on Earth and beyond may be much more commonplace than we’d previously thought, according to a paper published February 14 in the journal Science Advances.