Category: 7. Science

Researchers might have found some of the oldest evidence of an oxygen-producing lifeform in rocks, from samples that are at least 2.5 billion years old, as well as biological signatures in 3.3 billion-year-old material, among the oldest known….

Life’s timeline has just gotten older. Chemical evidence of life was found in rocks over 3.3 billion years old, setting a new, earlier timeline for life on Earth.

The research further provided molecular clues that pushed back the origin of…

A tiny, 12,000-year-old clay sculpture of a goose on the back of a woman may depict…

Our search for exoplanets is focused on Milky Way stars. It’s been successful, with more than 6,000 detected so far. Scientists are even beginning to move beyond mere detections, and working on characterizing other characteristics of…

For decades, scientists have known that mitochondria, which produce energy inside our cells, malfunction in Parkinson’s disease. But a critical question remained: do the failing mitochondria cause Parkinson’s, or do they become…