Ancient Microbes Fused Into Earth’s First Complex Cells. Scientists Learned What Made It Possible.

Eukaryotes—the building blocks of complex life—appeared on Earth 1.7 billion years ago, and now scientists have solved a longstanding riddle about their origin.

Ancient Microbes Fused Into Earth’s First Complex Cells. Scientists Just Learned What Made It Possible.

Around 1.7 billion years ago, eukaryotes—the building blocks of complex life—first appeared on Earth, and now scientists have ...
Earth.com

Evolutionary mystery solved: Earth’s first animals had no skeletons

New research shows that the earliest sponges were soft bodied and lacked skeletons, explaining why their oldest fossils are ...
Science Daily

The first animals on Earth had no skeletons and that changes everything

Sponges may be ancient, but their timeline has been murky. New research suggests the earliest sponges were soft and ...
Game Rant

Best First-Person Base-Building Games

An HR advisor with a background in recruitment and HRIS functions, with a passion for video games and writing. Oliver grew up playing Call of Duty with his siblings and has garnered 1000s of hours ...
Deadline.com

Ncuti Gatwa, Thandiwe Newton, Maxine Peake & Danny Sapani Join Michaela Coel In ‘First Day On Earth’ Series For HBO & BBC

EXCLUSIVE: Ncuti Gatwa (Doctor Who, Sex Education), Thandiwe Newton (Anaconda, God’s Country), Maxine Peake (I Swear, Say Nothing) and Danny Sapani (Halo, Harlots) are set to star opposite Michaela ...
New Scientist

Which humans first made tools or art – and how do we know?

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. When writing headlines for stories about human evolution, ...
GeekWire

First multi-coronavirus vaccine enters human testing, built on UW Medicine technology

A model of a new vaccine targeting a family of coronaviruses that includes the virus that causes COVID-19. The image highlights pieces of several different viruses attached to a computer-designed ...
AOL

The Most Expensive Things Humans Have Ever Built

When governments, corporations, or individuals decide that failure is not an option, spending starts to look different. Budgets stretch because the goal matters more than the price tag. Some of these ...
Wired

Two Titanic Structures Hidden Deep Within the Earth Have Altered the Magnetic Field for Millions of Years

A team of geologists found for the first time evidence linking regions of low seismic velocity and the shape of the Earth’s magnetic field. A team of geologists has found for the first time evidence ...
Autoblog

Subaru’s First U.S.-Built Hybrid Couldn’t Have Come at a Better Time

The first Subaru Forester Hybrid has rolled off the Indiana assembly line, positioning it outside the scope of U.S. vehicle import tariffs. In 2024, Subaru said that the next-generation Forester would ...
Indian Defence Review

Researchers Uncover 4,000-Year-Old Megastructures That Were Not Built by Humans

What appears from space as a vast, geometric imprint etched into the landscape of northeastern Brazil long puzzled scientists. Spanning an area comparable to an entire European country, these ancient ...