More than 3.5 billion years ago, the Earth was not the hospitable world we know today. The atmosphere lacked oxygen, the seas ...

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New method reveals chemical signs of early microbial life in ancient Earth rocks, showing photosynthesis evolved much earlier ...

People have long said that "bread is life." Now, researchers at Tufts University are using the bubbling mixtures of flour and ...

By Sean Mowbray Invisible in their trillions, microbes dwell in our bodies, grow in soils, live on trees and are integral to ...

Deep-sea sediment layers show rare microbial wrinkle structures that formed in environments far beyond the reach of sunlight. Dr. Rowan Martindale, a paleoecologist and geobiologist at the University ...

On Earth, deep-sea vents may have given rise to the planet’s first life. But nothing of the sort seems to be happening at the ...

Underground environments like soil and aquifers teem with microbial life. These tiny microbes play a big role in cycling ...

Rocky planets that are about earth-size, or maybe two to three times larger, will offer the best chances for simple microbial life, says geodynamicist. Despite endless debate on how and why earth has ...

Although evidence of life on Mars hasn’t yet been discovered during any of NASA’s robotic missions, scientists believe it could be a different story in small pools of water under the surface. A new ...

An Argentina lagoon turned a bright pink color caused by sodium sulfite, an anti-bacterial product used in fish factories - Copyright AFP Timur Matahari An Argentina ...