Long-term studies at Georgia Tech and beyond show that evolution is happening right now. They capture the rise of new species ...

In a study published in Systematic Biology, researchers from Imperial College London, UCL, Dalhousie University and the ...

New research led by a York University professor sheds light on the earliest days of Earth's formation and potentially calls ...

Life on Earth had to begin somewhere, and scientists think that “somewhere” is LUCA—or the Last Universal Common Ancestor.

But while lifeless during that time, the planet was already covered by vast oceans dotted with hydrothermal vent systems that ...

New study shows how bird traits like gene makeup and clutch size shape evolution. This may help scientists understand ...

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...

and the geologist who ten years ago was embarrassed by the shortness of the time allowed to him for the evolution of the earth's crust is now still more embarrassed by the superabundance with ...

The team says that further research should investigate how cosmic radiation might have influenced evolution on Earth throughout history, which could help us in the hunt for life on other planets too.

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