Girguis, a professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard, specializes in biochemistry and ecological physiology ...
But while lifeless during that time, the planet was already covered by vast oceans dotted with hydrothermal vent systems that ...
In living organisms, every protein—a type of biological polymer consisting of hundreds of amino acids—carries out specific ...
The earliest lifeforms, cyanobacteria, appeared around 4 billion years ago. These organisms, now known as algae, were among ...
Ancient oceans, which were heavy on iron, interacted differently with light wavelengths, retracting green light into the ...
New research sheds light on one of the biggest questions in biology: where did complex life come from? The answer may lie with Asgard archaea, a group of ancient single-celled microbes that share ...
Scientists reveal the role of hidden microbes called Asgard archaea in the origins of complex life, challenging long-held views of evolution.
But real lightning would have struck infrequently—and mostly in open ocean, where organic compounds would have quickly ...
The study sheds light on life during the Great Oxidation Event, a pivotal time roughly 2.4 billion years ago when ...
The Curiosity rover detected the largest organic molecules to date on Mars, which may be fragments of fatty acids, or some of ...