Mind-Blowing Calculation Shows Living Cells Outnumber All the Stars and Grains of Sand — By far
Life on Earth exists on a scale that defies human imagination.
Tag: life
The building blocks of life can form on space dust, offering clues to the origins of life
While it's not confirmed that life comes from space, this is a sign that it might.
Photosynthesis could be as old as life itself
We all got to eat, right?
Phosphine on Venus? It’s probably just sulfur dioxide
Life on Venus is as unlikely as ever.
Million-year-old dormant microbes beneath ocean floor push life to its absolute limits
Zombified cells found in sediments deep beneath the ocean floor use slightly more than a zeptowatt of power to survive.
Researchers list the 10 lifestyle choices most likely to kill you
What doesn't kill you might, in fact, only be slowly killing you.
Australian men have the longest life expectancy
Men live longest in the land of baking deserts and venomous everything.
Scientists uncover new insights into the origin of life
The conditions necessary to form the building blocks of life are more feasible than meets eyes.
If you want to find your passion, keep a first-person perspective on life
What we experience sometimes doesn't fit with what we think about ourselves -- keeping a first-person perspective helps cut through ...
Iron-breathing bacteria might have delayed Earth’s oxygenation for almost one billion years
Inhale iron, exhale rust.
Mars may have been habitable more than 4.4 billion years ago
The story of life on Mars -- if there ever was such a thing -- may have started much earlier ...
What is soil? Here’s the inside scoop
The Earth's great recycle bin.
Robots and AI can help us better understand deep sea species, study reports.
We're fishing for information in the deep seas.
Building blocks of life can spontaneously form in outer space
Biology -- it may literally be out of this world.
Nuclear-powered ‘tunnelbot’ could probe the depths of Europa’s oceans
Europa's almost as cold as your ex's heart, just as frozen.
Mars may yet hold life in salty subsurface waters
Mars may be more life-friendly than we thought.
It Is Possible Jupiter Could Support Life, Scientists Say
The chances of it happening are pretty slim though.
Ancient volcanism shows our emissions can trigger a mass marine extinction
Ancient volcanism offers a glimpse into the future effects of climate change.
The Earth had continental crust much earlier than thought — potentially life, too
The Earth's 'young' phase might have been much shorter than we assume.
What if we’re not the first advanced civilization on Earth — How would we know?
This is not about conspiracy theories, but a legitimate scientific concern.
Mass extinctions don’t come out of the blue — and we’re seeing some of the signs today
An incoming mass extinction isn't as hard to spot as we'd believed.
Silicon-based life on Earth? Only artificially, so far — but maybe natural on other planets
A team of researchers forced bacteria to create carbon-silicon bonds, and their experiment showcases why life on our planet chose ...
Meteorites carrying both water and organic compounds point to an ocean world “seeding life” in the universe
Why spread your seed across the Earth when you can spread it across space?
What Curiosity found on Mars are probably just crystals — not fossils
This is likely not our first brush with alien life.
The earliest life forms could be these 3.5-billion-year-old microbes
The amazing discovery suggests that alien life might actually be common.
New evidence indicates that life on Earth emerged almost 4 billion years ago
It's as old as we can possibly find.
All the ingredients for alien life: NASA finds hydrogen spewing out of Saturn’s icy moon, likely propelled from hydro-thermal vents
Both Enceladus and Europa seem capable of supporting alien life, according to a major NASA announcement.
If there’s any life in the Trappist-1 system it’s likely been planet-hopping, scientists say
Nothing like a good ol' meteorite impact to kickstart life.
Earth-born methanogen bacteria species could survive in Mars’ crust, new study shows
Life can be surprisingly hardy.
Early life kept oxygen in check and stalled evolution for billions of years, model suggests
Evolution doesn't always procrastinate. But when it does, it's for 2 billion years.
A whole new branch of life could have evolved and died off on Earth 2,4 billion years ago
There's no proof. But the conditions were right for it to happen.
Scientists coax bacteria towards silicon-based life
Silly bacteria, carbon-based life is best life!
Martian minerals might bear signatures of ancient life
Findings alien life on barren planet like Mars seems unlikely, but the discovery of the century might that of past ...
Meteorites crashing into early Earth might have supplied all the precious biocompatible phosphorus
Scientists track how a critical chemical element for life got to our planet.
Over-consumption is more deadly to Earth’s wildlife than climate change
We use so much of everything so fast that it's literally killing the planet.
Chinese scientist finds earliest known fossil of complex life, paper met with heavy criticism
A new discovery may place the first appearance of complex life on Earth a full billion years earlier than previously ...
Money can’t buy happiness the saying goes; but it does buy a longer life, Harvard replies
The richest American men may live up to 15 years longer than the poorest ones, and the richest women 10 ...
Biological wheels and motors imaged for the first time
Morgan Beeby and his colleagues at the Imperial College London used electron microscopy to image these biological motors in high ...
If Moore’s law applied to life, then it should be 10bn years old. But the Earth is 4.5bn years old. Hum…
Some researchers have made an interesting connection: if you measure the complexity of life or how big the genome is ...
Glass in Martian craters might hold clues to ancient life
Sampling impact glass from the ancient craters that litter the surface for Mars might prove key to settling a long ...
Key findings help unravel journey from inanimate chemistry to life
In the beginning, the Earth's surface was a lifeless, hot, but chemically rich place. In these harsh conditions, the first ...
Microbial life found 2.4 km beneath the ocean floor – it’s the deepest marine drill ever
An expedition that drilled 2,400m beneath the seabed off Japan - the deepest marine drilling ever - found life in cores ...
Multicellular Life may have ‘cheated’ its way into Existence
One of the most fundamental question evolutionary biologists are trying to answer is how did multicellular life evolve from single celled ...
Tracking the origin of life: computer simulation delves inside ‘primordial soup’
Early Earth wasn't the most hospitable place in the Universe, but some in all this chaos life emerged. Image credit: ...
Living a happy or meaningful life – what’s the difference?
While happiness and meaningfulness often overlap, the two are distinct states of being. A Stanford project looked into the lives ...
Origin of life a fluke? Study suggests more’s at play than just randomness
(c) University of Texas One of the greatest mysteries scientists have been trying to reveal is how inanimate chemicals joined ...
NASA slams alien life claims
Two days ago, the whole world was teeming with excitement, after some NASA researchers reported finding traces of alien life ...
NASA scientists find evidence of life in meteorites
Wherever it's possible, life finds a way; the old saying seems to be more and more actual these days, with ...
