Discover the evolution of bacteria through machine learning, DNA comparisons, and the Great Oxidation Event 2.4 billion years ...

Bacteria consist of a single cell. They do not have bones and are not like big animals that leave clear signs in the ...

The planet Earth thawed approximately 4.5 billion years ago. The Moon was created when a Mars-sized object crashed. If there ...

One thing geology teaches us about is the existence of another monumental event in the history of Earth, 2.4 billion years ...

Scientists have helped to construct a detailed timeline for bacterial evolution, suggesting some bacteria used oxygen long before evolving the ability to produce it through photosynthesis.

Venus may be far more geologically alive than anyone expected. New research suggests its outer crust could be churning with ...

Microbial organisms dominate life on Earth, but tracing their early history and evolution is difficult because they rarely ...

A new study in Cell reveals that species living miles beneath the ocean’s surface have independently evolved the same genetic mutation. These species, which diverged on the tree of life millions of ...

A new study compares young and old exoplanets to uncover how worlds shrink, migrate and evolve over time — offering insights ...

Bacteria may have adapted to oxygen well before Earth’s atmosphere was saturated with it, according to a new study. Researchers who traced microbial evolution over billions of years – using machine ...

The study also provides a new approach to solving one of the biggest enduring scientific mysteries: when did plate tectonics ...