“We always think about genes and chemicals, but there’s also a strong underpinning of physics in the development of multicellular life,” Dr. Shekhar said. “Even something like the flow of ...

Biosignatures are indicators of biological processes and, therefore, potential signs of life as we know it. It’s also worth noting that all planet-like bodies outside of our solar system are ...

either life as we know it or as we don’t know it. For the study, the researchers used a series of computer models to simulate how a process called glycine fermentation, which is used by bacteria on ...

That's Deep Where to look for new forms of life? Scientists who descended almost two miles into a South African gold mine—besting previous searches for subsurface organisms by a mile and a half ...

New research suggests this is because Prototaxites don’t have a place in the tree of life as we know it—they belonged to a previously unknown branch. Researchers from the United Kingdom ...

As fans of March of the Penguins know, male emperor penguins incubate their mates' eggs while crowded together, eating nothing for months as winter temperatures drop to -20° Fahrenheit ...

that ingredients for life as we know it to take hold exist in the right quantities and combinations elsewhere. The main reason that's so has to do with the fact that we are yet to develop the ...

scorching hydrogen atmosphere — hardly conducive to life as we know it. Scientists will also need to run laboratory experiments to make sense of the new study — to re-create the possible ...

Scientists say this process can sometimes create hydrogen, a potential energy source for life as we know it here on Earth. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching ...

Lancaster University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. Climate breakdown is major threat to life as we know it, but it is just one element of a much wider ...

This phenomenon, called homochirality, is essential for life as we know it—but how it first emerged remains a major puzzle in origins of life research. The team investigated tartaric acid (TA ...