Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments ...

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants.

The last universal common ancestor is the single life form that branched into everything ... In other words, our current working model of gene history could be undervaluing early protolife ...

which could significantly redefine our understanding of the origins of life and how our planet was shaped. The team found evidence of a major meteorite impact 3.5 billion ... Giant Ice Bulldozers ...

Research suggests that microlightning from water droplets, rather than large lightning strikes, may have triggered life’s ...

In this week's Short Wave roundup, Berly McCoy and Regina Barber talk about the origins of life on Earth, what bird brains illuminate about human speech and how ADHD is mischaracterized on TikTok.

Researchers found the world’s oldest impact crater in Western Australia. The crater was created by a massive meteorite impact ...

By collecting samples after climbing a high peak and firing rockets with special traps into the upper atmosphere, scientists ...