Without the chicken, there is no egg; without the egg, there is no chicken – but which came first? This dilemma has puzzled many great minds over the years. It seems that scientists from the ...

The origin of life, and how to get to that very point, have been as mysterious as they are fascinating. It is one of the greatest questions that humans have att ...

Between 1.8 billion and 800 million years ago, earthly life was in the doldrums. During this period, called the "boring ...

Without the chicken, there is no egg, and without the egg, there is no chicken – but which came first? This dilemma has ...

The "boring billion" shaped multicellularity, with energy demands sparking complexity. This era shows evolution's cost.

But to find that complexity, we must take the lessons of the boring billion to heart. Planets are not just a stage on which ...

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Contact lenses and water “are a bad combination” because water makes contact lens wearers vulnerable to eye infections, the ...

Since soon after our planet formed, Earth's 4.6 billion-year-long history was dominated by single-celled life. Something ...

There’s no question we’ll keep finding really, really interesting biology in these vents. I can’t stress enough that this was ...

Chromosphaera perkinsii, a billion-year-old species, may reveal multicellularity’s origins, predating the chicken and egg.