Four billion years ago, Earth was violent, hot, and unstable. Yet new research suggests that by then, life had already reached a surprising level of complexity. At that time lived the last universal ...
Researchers have gathered new insights regarding the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA), as published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution. They investigated the creature and found that it ...
From different angles, EMBL researchers are looking at archaea with the hope these understudied organisms will answer ...
NASA-supported scientists have resurrected an enzyme first used by organisms on Earth 3.2-billion years ago and, in the ...