Scientists are trying to understand how complex life emerged on Earth about 2 billion years ago. Our microbial ancestors could be the key.

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In many submerged regions, murky mud shelters strange life-forms that seem to be the key to one of the biggest mysteries of life on Earth. These creatures belong to a domain of life called the archaea ...

The DNA foundation model Evo 2, first released in February 2025 as a preprint, is now published in the journal Nature.

The three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient evolutionary relationships in the tree of life, according to a new study. It is the first time researchers use data from ...

A new paper by computer engineer Dr Konstantin Borisov stakes an attention‑grabbing claim: the biblical Garden of Eden was located on Egypt’s Giza Plateau, and the Great Pyramid embodied the “Tree of ...

Where there’s a tree, there’s usually a forest. But not always. A biologist describes some of the loneliest trees on planet Earth. When we think about isolation in nature, we usually picture islands ...