The atmosphere may have blanketed the Earth with molecules containing sulfur billions of years ago. In A Nutshell Laboratory ...
Researchers recreated conditions from billions of years ago and found that Earth’s young atmosphere could make key molecules ...
Between a rock and a green place: Michelle Gehringer studies fossilized life on early Earth to learn more about the evolution of (oxygenic) photosynthesis - the process that makes the oxygen we breath ...
How did life begin? An international team of researchers from Japan, Malaysia, the UK, and Germany suggest that the answer ...
About 700 million years ago, enormous glaciers flowed across the Earth's surface in powerful frozen rivers like "giant ice bulldozers" that pulverized our planet's crust and may have contributed to ...
People have long wondered what life was first like on Earth, and if there is life in our solar system beyond our planet. Scientists have reason to believe that some of the moons in our solar system – ...
University of Alberta geochemists have discovered a missing piece to one of the great mysteries of science—the origin of life ...
Is life out there? NASA finds essential sugars on ancient asteroid the size of the Empire State Building - ‘We’re looking at ...
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