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2.5 billion years ago hunger forced single cells into multicellular evolution: Study
Researchers found that cooperative fluid dynamics between single-celled organisms may have driven the evolution of ...
1 Trillion Species, 3 Billion Years: AI Helped Trace Bacteria Evolution On Earth
Bacteria consist of a single cell. They do not have bones and are not like big animals that leave clear signs in the ...
All Life on Earth Comes From One Single Ancestor. And It's So Much Older Than We Thought.
Life on Earth had to begin somewhere, and scientists think that “somewhere” is LUCA—or the Last Universal Common Ancestor.
1 trillion species, 3 billion years: AI finds ancient bacteria used oxygen long before Earth had it
The planet Earth thawed approximately 4.5 billion years ago. The Moon was created when a Mars-sized object crashed. If there ...
New Study Reveals Chemical Secret Of Earth's 4.5 Years Billion Crust
Earth is the only known planet which has plate tectonics today. The constant movement of these giant slabs of rock over the ...
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Life May Have Emerged a Cosmic Eyeblink after the Big Bang
Scientists today are quite sure about how long our universe has existed: it’s been 13.8 billion years, give or take 59 million years, since the cosmos burst into being via the big bang.
Meteor strike may have sparked an explosion of life in the early Earth
A devastating meteorite strike over three billion years ago may have been just what early life needed to thrive. While it’s ...
How AI uncovered 3 billion years of bacterial evolution across 1 trillion species
Discover the evolution of bacteria through machine learning, DNA comparisons, and the Great Oxidation Event 2.4 billion years ...
Molecular clock analysis shows bacteria used oxygen long before widespread photosynthesis
Microbial organisms dominate life on Earth, but tracing their early history and evolution is difficult because they rarely ...
3.5 billion-year-old crater created by meteorite impact found in Australia, scientists say
The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than 3.5 billion years ago is changing the way scientists view the history of Earth ...
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Curiosity Just Found Mars’ Biggest Organic Molecules Yet. It Could Be A Sign of Life
The discovery of long-chain organic compounds in a 3.7-billion-year-old rock raises new questions about the Red Planet’s past ...