Hungarian biologist Tibor Gánti is an obscure figure. Now, more than a decade after his death, his ideas about how life began ...

By resurrecting a 3.2-billion-year-old enzyme and studying it inside living microbes, researchers at the University of ...

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Nitrogen, upon which all life on Earth depends, may hold the key for explaining how early life on the planet evolved and how it could evolve on other planets.

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The discovery, published in the Journal of Virology in November 2025, adds weight to the viral eukaryogenesis hypothesis.

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A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests could have quickly formed in the presence of compounds called borates. When ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that all life on Earth—humans, whales, bacteria, everything—traces back to a single ancestor that lived far earlier than previously believed. New findings published ...