In a recent study, researchers gained new insight into the lives of bacteria that survive by grouping together as if they ...

Earth's oceans may have displayed a very different color several billion years ago. This hypothesis emerges from a recent ...

An electron microscopy images of multicellular magnetotactic bacteria that featured on the covers of the 2022 edition of The ...

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

Researchers have made a new discovery that changes our understanding of Earth's early geological history, challenging beliefs ...

Japanese cuisine wouldn’t be the same without miso — but astronauts wanting use the fermented soybean staple in space one day ...

University of Queensland scientists have helped to construct a detailed timeline for bacterial evolution, suggesting some ...

The discovery of salty mineral evaporites on Ryugu indicates that watery environments may have been widespread in the early ...

For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that certain lichen species can survive Mars-like conditions, including ...

Mars can host life, according to Polish researchers, after demonstrating lichen's survival under simulated Mars-like ...

A devastating meteorite strike over three billion years ago may have been just what early life needed to thrive. While it’s easy to imagine such a collision as purely destructive, new research ...

An international team has sequenced the first ancient genomes from the so-called Green Sahara, a period when the largest desert in the world temporarily turned into a humid savanna-like environment.