It's Saturday! This week, in an eminently practical analysis of the Boltzmann brain conjecture, physicists put constraints on ...

Prototaxites are something of a prehistoric mystery. They were the first giant organisms on land, towering over ancient ...

The origin of life on Earth becomes even more fascinating and complex as we peer into the mysterious world of viruses. Said to have existed since living cells first appeared, these microscopic ...

The Lomagundi-Jatuli event, which occurred more than two billion years ago, followed the Great Oxygenation Event and was marked by a significant change in the isotopic composition of carbon. Its cause ...

A 370 million-year-old fossil found in Scotland is an entirely new form of life which towered 26ft tall, scientists have confirmed.

In a scientific twist that blends cutting-edge genomics with Norse mythology, researchers have identified the closest microbial relatives of all complex life on Earth, including humans. The discovery ...

Scientists first read the human genome, a three-billion-letter biological book, in April 2003. Since then, researchers have steadily advanced the ability to write DNA, moving far beyond single-gene ...

Learn how one-celled organisms, or single-celled organisms, helped build complex life.

Called 'prototaxites', this lifeform lived on Earth around 410 million years ago, before becoming extinct 360 million years ...

Protaxites: The discovery that could change the understanding of life - Scientists have potentially discovered a new ...