Scientists are making a case for adjusting our understanding of how exactly genes first emerged. For a while, there’s been a ...

However, a new study suggests that another go at multicellular life might’ve occurred 1.5 billion years earlier, thanks to specific conditions created by volcanic activity caused by the ...

The origin of life on Earth stands as one of the great mysteries of science ... Scientists have found traces of a form of carbon—an important element in living organisms—in one such 4.1 ...

Whereas Darwin’s theory itself ducked the origin-of-life question altogether, saying absolutely nothing about how the first organisms came into being, in 1871 Darwin mused in a letter to his friend ...

April 1, 2025, Mountain View, CA -- The SETI Institute announced ... Advisory Board and ratified by its Board of Directors. "Frank Drake included the origin of life as the fourth of the seven ...

Researchers at Empa and Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany have now found evidence that the interplay between electric and magnetic fields could be at the origin ... of life—the fact that ...

Last Chance Lake is no more than 1 foot deep. Located on a volcanic ... this type of environment would be favorable to the origin of life, and is plausible,” he said. Last Chance Lake isn ...

But it wasn't until 1.65 billion years ago that the first single-celled eukaryotes, the group that includes all plant and animal life on Earth, showed up in the fossil record in sediments from ...

The chart shows the relative ups and downs in species counts, telling scientists about the origin, diversification, and extinction of ancient life ... arose no later than 1.8 billion years ...