“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...

A new theory suggests windows of opportunity, not a series of improbable events may have helped humans gain a foothold in the ...

Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

A new study highlights how life possibly evolved prior to and during the rise of Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere.

Gaining insight could help understand the timing and process of life's emergence. A research team led by a Rutgers-New ...

A new study explores how complex chemical mixtures change under shifting environmental conditions, shedding light on the ...

A new study finds that ocean acidity may have prevented life on Earth from developing for the planet’s first 500 million ...

Scientist have concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as previously thought, an insight that bears directly on the question of when life originated on the planet. The finding ...

It may provide the clearest picture yet of how Earth evolved to a point where life was able to flourish ... a professor of Earth and planetary sciences in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and ...