The story of Earth’s atmospheric oxygenation is one of transformation, shaped by both biological and planetary forces. While ...

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including such burning questions as why it happened when it did and not sometime earlier in Earth's history. It took scientists working with cyanobacterial microbes to connect the dots. In the Middle ...

Time, water, and geologic forces have converged to create underwater sinkholes where oxygen-poor and sulfur-rich groundwater support prolific microbial mats resembling life on early Earth.

Earth's breathable air owes its existence to the Moon's gravitational pull, which slowed Earth's spin over billions of years, ...

Cyanobacteria are single celled microbes that can photosynthesize, and they helped generate Earth's atmosphere to make complex life possible... | Cell And Molecular Biology ...