Liquid samples of different algal species investigated in the study, all stored in the Culture Collection of Algae at Göttingen University. Credit: Tatyana Darienko OK…
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New Clues to the First Life on Earth – Researchers Uncover 3.42 Billion-Year-Old Microbial Mysteries
New Clues to the First Life on Earth – Researchers Uncover 3.42 Billion-Year-Old Microbial Mysteries
A drill core sample from the Barberton greenstone belt used in the study. The dark layers contain particles of carbonaceous matter, the altered remains from…
Sebastian Haas holds a piece of the salt crust from Last Chance Lake with green algae in the middle and black sediment at the bottom.…
Recent findings from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal that oxygen was abundant in the early Universe, suggesting that life’s essential elements were present much…
Protein condensates (shown here in a microscope image) are critical to the process of gene expression in cells, and condensate formation depends on proteins’ intrinsically…
The Far-Flung Origin of Life’s Building Blocks: Researchers Uncover “Completely Unexpected” Findings
Many of Earth’s volatiles came from beyond Jupiter. Credit: Imperial College London/NASA Imperial College London researchers have discovered the probable distant origin of Earth’s volatile…
The origin of life is a scientific mystery that has captivated researchers for centuries. While there are many theories about how life first arose on…
This illustration of early Earth includes liquid water as well as magma seeping from the planet’s core due to a large impact. Scientists at NASA…
The new paper argues that the widely accepted theory from astrophysicist Brandon Carter used faulty logic. According to a recent paper by a math professor…
An artist’s impression of early Mars. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser/N. Risinger (skysurvey.org) Early MarsMars is the second smallest planet in our solar system and the fourth…
The discoveries may alter scientists’ perceptions of the environments in which life initially originated. Seawater might have supplied the phosphorus required for emerging life. Researchers…
The universe consists of matter. Matter is everything we see around us. That’s strange – but why? In theory, there should also be large amounts…