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For decades, school textbooks have explained that oxygen on Earth is mainly produced through photosynthesis, a process that ...

Scientists are trying to understand how complex life emerged on Earth about 2 billion years ago. Our microbial ancestors ...

Scientists are trying to understand how complex life emerged on Earth about 2 billion years ago. Our microbial ancestors ...

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The newly described archaeon Sukunaarchaeum mirabile carries the smallest known genome among Archaea and blurs life’s limits.

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A new study shows how simulated Mars dust affects tardigrades, offering insight into space farming and contamination risks.

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A team of researchers working in China’s Hunan province has unearthed more than 50,000 fossil specimens from one small quarry ...