Black holes may not be as life-destroying as we thought. A surprising study reveals that the powerful radiation from active ...

New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the building blocks of life.

Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments discovered gene fragments that indicated a new and previously undiscovered form ...

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants.

The chemical element sulfur is essential for all lifeforms and is a building block of proteins and amino acids. By studying ...

The late Archean period was a time of significant ... These periodic oxygen previews may have created conditions for early life forms to develop oxygen-processing abilities long before oxygen ...

This pattern might help explain why oxygen whiffs seem to have become more common in the late Archean, just before the Great Oxidation Event. These periodic oxygen previews may have created conditions ...

However, the universe may harbour life forms based on entirely different principles and biochemistries. Life elsewhere could use different elements as building blocks. Silicon, with its chemical ...

as well as the history of life on Earth. The Archean Eon (4–2.5 million years ago) is the second of Earth’s four major geologic eons, a time when the planet was mostly covered by oceans ...

The Chien lab is looking for an enthusiastic and motivated (senior) postdoc/project manager to join our collaborative, interdisciplinary environment. Human Technopole is recruiting an outstanding ...