NASA’s Curiosity rover has unearthed the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars—possible fragments of fatty ...
Scientists discovered a 400-million-year-old fossil known as Prototaxites, which does not belong to any known life form ...
Fossils known as Prototaxites, which once dominated the land, have puzzled scientists since Darwin’s days. New evidence ...
Along with nitrogen and carbon, phosphorus is an essential element for life on Earth. It is a central component of molecules ...
Life has evolved over billions of years, adapting to the changing environment. Similarly, enzymes—proteins that speed up ...
Mysterious micro-burrows in desert marble and limestone were probably made by microbes that lived millions of years ago. Exactly what kind of microbes bored into the rock remains unknown, as does ...
New research sheds light on one of the biggest questions in biology: where did complex life come from? The answer may lie ...
A bizarre 400-million-year-old fossil may not be a plant, animal, or even a fungus. Known asPrototaxites, this extinct ...
At the heart of nearly every large galaxy lies a supermassive black hole. These cosmic giants don’t just sit quietly. Every ...