One thing geology teaches us about is the existence of another monumental event in the history of Earth, 2.4 billion years ...

Life on Earth had to begin somewhere, and scientists think that “somewhere” is LUCA—or the Last Universal Common Ancestor.

other scientists were already trying to explain the diversity of life on Earth. One such scientist was Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, a French researcher who proposed a different theory of evolution 50 ...

In a recent study, researchers gained new insight into the lives of bacteria that survive by grouping together as if they ...

Single-celled organisms that group together can generate stronger water currents to pull in food, a benefit that may have ...

Discover the evolution of bacteria through machine learning, DNA comparisons, and the Great Oxidation Event 2.4 billion years ...

Long-term studies at Georgia Tech and beyond show that evolution is happening right now. They capture the rise of new species ...

Even on a volatile Earth billions of years ago ... eventually leading to the evolution of life. “Microdischarges between obviously charged water microdroplets make all the organic molecules ...

New research sheds light on the earliest days of the earth's formation and potentially calls into question some earlier assumptions in planetary science about the early years of rocky planets.

Scientists have helped to construct a detailed timeline for bacterial evolution, suggesting some bacteria used oxygen long before evolving the ability to produce it through photosynthesis.